Bill Poehler

The Brown Bullet

Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing

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Produktbeschreibung

"The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. Though Rajo Jack spent his whole life striving to reach the pinnacle of the sport, the Indianapolis 500, the greatest race in the world wouldn't have him. In The Brown Bullet, Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, and, in the end, tells how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, winning some of the biggest races of the day"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781641602297
• ISBN-10: 1641602295
• Artikelnr.: 57834104

Autorenporträt

Bill Poehler is an award-winning investigative journalist based in the Pacific Northwest, where he has worked as a reporter for the Statesman Journal for 21 years. His work has appeared in the Oregonian, the Eugene Register-Guard, and the Corvallis Gazette-Times; online at OPB.org and KGW.com; and in magazines including Slant Six News, Racing Wheels, National Speed Sport News, and Dirt Track Digest.