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Breaking through John B. McLendon, basketball legend and civil rights pioneer / Milton S. Katz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 256 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610750844
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV884 .B743 2007
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Contents:
Foreword / Billy Packer -- Foreword / Ian Naismith -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Kansas childhood and the love of the game, 1915-33 -- The University of Kansas and Dr. James Naismith, 1933-36 -- Establishing a tradition of excellence : North Carolina College, 1937-52 -- A pioneer for integration : the National Basketball Association and the National Athletic Steering Committee, 1950-53 -- Groundbreaking championship years at Tennessee A and I State University, 1954-59 -- Blazing new trails : the Cleveland Pipers, 1959-62 -- Back to the college game : Kentucky State College and Cleveland State University, 1963-69 -- The first black coach in the American Basketball Association: the Denver Rockets, 1969 -- National and international ambassador of basketball for Converse, Incorporated, 1969-89 -- Return to Cleveland State University : Professor, Advisor, Historian, and "just a man," 1989-99 -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword / Billy Packer -- Foreword / Ian Naismith -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Kansas childhood and the love of the game, 1915-33 -- The University of Kansas and Dr. James Naismith, 1933-36 -- Establishing a tradition of excellence : North Carolina College, 1937-52 -- A pioneer for integration : the National Basketball Association and the National Athletic Steering Committee, 1950-53 -- Groundbreaking championship years at Tennessee A and I State University, 1954-59 -- Blazing new trails : the Cleveland Pipers, 1959-62 -- Back to the college game : Kentucky State College and Cleveland State University, 1963-69 -- The first black coach in the American Basketball Association: the Denver Rockets, 1969 -- National and international ambassador of basketball for Converse, Incorporated, 1969-89 -- Return to Cleveland State University : Professor, Advisor, Historian, and "just a man," 1989-99 -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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