Michael Hurd

Thursday Night Lights

The Story of Black High School Football in Texas

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Produktbeschreibung

Telling an inspiring, largely unknown story, Thursday Night Lights recounts how African American high school football programs produced championship teams and outstanding players during the Jim Crow era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781477318300
• ISBN-10: 1477318305
• Artikelnr.: 53773080

Autorenporträt

Michael Hurd is the director of Prairie View A&M University's Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture, which documents the history of African American Texans. He has worked as a sports writer for the Houston Post, the Austin American-Statesman, USA Today, and Yahoo Sports. Hurd's previous books include Black College Football, 1892-1992: One Hundred Years of History, Education, and Pride. For more than a decade, he served as a member of the National Football Foundation's Honors Court for Divisional Players, the group that chooses small college players for the College Football Hall of Fame, and he currently serves on the selection committee for the Black College Football Hall of Fame.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. 1. The PVIL: Emerging from the Shadows
3. 2. Night Train, Choo-Choo, and Ridin' the Yella Dawg!
4. 3. Learning and Teaching the Game
5. 4. Gold in the Triangle
6. 5. Yates versus Wheatley
7. 6. Integration: The Good, the Bad, the End
8. Acknowledgments
* Appendixes
* PVIL Football State Champions
* PVIL Milestones
9. Select Bibliography
10. Index