Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955
This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil''s bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport''s integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging and even ensuring the demise of those same black leagues. Taking a thematic approach, this book focuses each of its chapters on a singular even...
This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil''s bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport''s integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging and even ensuring the demise of those same black leagues. Taking a thematic approach, this book focuses each of its chapters on a singular even...
