Breaking the line : the season in Black college football that transformed the sport and changed the course of civil rights /
Looks at the 1967 football season leading up to that year's black college championship between Grambling College and Florida A&M, and how it fit into the civil rights struggles of the time.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Behind God's back
- Draw water where you can
- The laboratory for manhood
- Spared for something
- Somebody has got to pay
- The best quarterback tonight
- Diplomacy with downtown
- That's my blood
- Borrowed time
- Juneteenth in December
- History in the air
- Epilogue: Their lives, their legacy
- 1967 regular-season records
- Starting lineups.