Out of the shadows a biographical history of African American athletes / edited by David K. Wiggins.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Striving for athletic success in a Jim Crow society -- Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger -- Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie -- The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond -- Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems -- Fashioning a world of sport behind segregated walls and on the international stage -- Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy -- Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey -- Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson -- Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds -- Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury -- Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax.

The fight for civil rights through athletic performance, persuasion, and protest -- Mary Jo Festle -- Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson -- Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith -- Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable -- Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early -- quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas -- Race, sport, and celebrity culture -- Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann -- "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope -- "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Contributors -- Index.

The original essays in this collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so- famous African American men and women athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how the changes mirrored the transformation of sport, American society, and civil rights legislation. Out of the Shadows shows us athletes struggling to make it in a Jim Crow society--Jimmy Winkfield in horse racing, Marshall Taylor in bicycling, William Henry Lewis in football, and Jack Johnson--and those achieving success on an international stage while suffering segregation at home--Ora Washington (tennis), Satchel Paige, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Alice Coachman (track and field), and Jackie Robinson. In the twentieth century athletes saw opportunities to fight for civil rights through their performances as was the case with Althea Gibson (tennis), Wilma Rudolph, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, and Arthur Ashe. Today's successful African American athletes, such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams, deal with issues of race and celebrity culture. --From publisher's description.

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