Bob Barnett, Dana Brooks, Ronald Althouse

The Black Athlete in West Virginia

High School and College Sports from 1900 Through the End of Segregation

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Produktbeschreibung

This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation. Despite having inadequate resources, the black schools' sports teams thrived during segregation and helped tie the state's scattered black communities together. West Virginia hosted the nation's first state-wide black high school basketball tournament, which flourished for 33 years, and both Bluefield State and West Virginia State won athletic championships in the prestigious Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (now Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association). Black schools were gradually closed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the desegregation of schools in West Virginia was an important step toward equality. For black athletes and their communities, the path to inclusion came with many costs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781476678979
• ISBN-10: 1476678979
• Artikelnr.: 65455709

Autorenporträt

Bob Barnett is a professor emeritus at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he taught classes in and researched sport history for 35 years and served as chair of the Division of Exercise Science, Sport and Recreation. He was inducted into the West Virginia All Black Schools Sports and Academic Hall of Fame in 2010 for his groundbreaking research on the West Virginia black high school's basketball tournament.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction by Bob Barnett Part I.
School and College Segregation in West Virginia, 1863-1954
1.
African Americans in West Virginia, 1860-1969
2.
Intercollegiate Sports in the Black Colleges, 1900-1954
3.
The First Black State High School Basketball Tournament in the United States, 1925-1944
4.
Earl Lloyd and the Golden Age of West Virginia State University Basketball, 1945-1954
5.
The Legacy of Black High School Basketball Part II. The Integration of West Virginia's High Schools and Colleges, 1954-1964
6.
Integrating Small Colleges
7.
From Hal Greer to Randy Moss: The Integration of Marshall University Sports
8.
Two Historically Black Colleges Join the White Intercollegiate Conference
9.
Black High Schools in the White Basketball Tournament, 1957-1969 10.
From Dick Leftridge to Major Harris: A Call for Sports Advocacy at WVU Epilogue Appendix: Pioneers in the Integration of College Sports in West Virginia Chapter Notes Bibliography Index