Sport and the Color Line
The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois'' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball''s great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and rac...
The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois'' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball''s great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and rac...