Todd Gould

For Gold and Glory

Charlie Wiggins and the African-American Racing Car Circuit

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The companion book to the PBS television special of the same name, For Gold and Glory retraces the little-known history of the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes. This highly celebrated auto-racing event for African Americans was held in Indiana and throughout the Midwest during the racial turbulence of the 1920s and 1930s, when the Ku Klux Klan cast a shadow over the social and political landscape of the state and region. The story is told through the eyes and emotions of Indianapolis auto mechanic Charlie Wiggins. The greatest African American driver of the era, Wiggins was known as the Negro Speed King.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-21962-6
EAN: 9780253219626
Produktnummer: 3074874
Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 238 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.3 cm 368 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 368

Über den Autor

Todd Gould is the ten-time Emmy Award-winning writer and television producer of For Gold and Glory, the PBS television special on which this book is based. Gould is author of Pioneers of the Hardwood (IUP, 1998). He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.