The unlevel playing field: a documentary history of the African American experience in sport

Antebellum Ordeals: Slavery, Sport, and the Prospects of Freedom

1. Tom Molineaux, Black Pioneer in Sport

2. "Holiday Times" / Frederick Douglass

3. "A Corn Shucking" / Francis Fedric

4. "Patting Juba" / Solomon Northup

5. "Preachin' and Baptizin'" / Benny Dilliard

6. "Becoming a Race Rider" / William Green

7. Amos Webber Report on Thanksgiving Field Day

Striving for Success: African American Athletes in the Early Period of Jim Crow, 1865-1915

1. Color Line in Organized Baseball

2. "Why Discriminate?" / Weldy Wilberforce Walker

3. "The Problem of Amusement" / W. E. B. Du Bois

4. Samuel Archer and J. B. Watson on Football at Southern Black Colleges

5. "Negro Foot-ball Players on New England Teams" / William Clarence Matthews

6. "Athletics in the American Army" / Thomas J. Clement

7. "Managers Troubles" / Sol White

8. "Baseball among the Fairer Sex Coming into Prominence"

9. Isaac Murphy, the Great Lexington Jockey

10. Marshall "Major" Taylor, Champion Sprint Cyclist

11. George Dixon's Long Career in Boxing

12. Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship

13. William Henry Lewis: Uplifting the Race

14. "Papa Jack": in the Ring and Out

15. Booker T. Washington and Jack Johnson: Race Men and Respectability

16. W. E. B. Du Bois and Jack Johnson: The Scholar's Pugilist and the Heavyweight Champ as Folk Hero

Parallel Institution: Black Sports between the World Wars

1. "Leisure Time and the Colored Citizen" / Emmett J. Scott

2. "A Baseball Appeal" / Beauregard F. Moseley

3. "Will Colored Baseball Survive the Acid Test?" / Andrew "Rube" Foster

4. "Satchel's Back in Town" / Chester L. Washington

5. "Baseball Classic - East vs. West" / Nat Trammell

6. Harlem Rens, "Incomparable Courteers"

7. "National American Tennis Association Championships" / Gerald Norman

8. J. Elmer Reed on the National Negro Bowling Association

9. Cum Posey: Athlete and Entrepreneur / Frank A. Young

10. Developing a High School Basketball Tournament

11. African American Women Make Their Marks in Sport

12. Women's Basketball and the Shape of Things to Come: Bennett College vs. the Philadephia Tribunes

13. "Nation Eyes Lincoln and Howard Game"

14. Hildrus A. Poindexter Discusses the Gridiron World: Lincoln, 1922-23

15. "The Colored Basketball Referee Finally Arrives"

16. "Tuskegee and 'Force' Rapped for Tribute to Knute Rockne"

17. "A Strange Tribe": On the Loyalties of Black Fans / Wendell Smith

18. W. E. B. Du Bois, Allison Davis, and Langston Hughes on the Excesses of Black College Sport

Quest for Racial Reform: Affirmation and Protest in the Sporting Realm, 1920s and 1930s

1. James Weldon Johnson on Sportsmen in Black Manhattan

2. "Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers" / Robert Hayden

3. Paris Noir: Eugene Bullard on the Expatriate Experience

4. Harry Levette and Herbert Henegan: Two Considerations of the 1932 Olympic Games

5. "Black Mercuries": The Meaning of Black Athletic Achievement

6. "Race and Runners" / W. Montague Cobb

7. Walter White to Jesse Owens on Race Pride and the Nazi Olympics

8. "The American Negro in Sport" / Marcus Garvey

9. "High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom" / Richard Wright

10. "A Toast to Joe Louis" / Willis P. Armstrong

11. Concerning the Snubbing of Paul Robeson

12. Economics of Bigotry: New Orleans Bars Blacks, Loses a Track Meet

13. Integrationism in Public Recreation: Denver as a Case Study

14. Next Bout - The NAACP vs. Jim Crow: Charles Hamilton Houston on the Politics of Sport in Washington, D. C.

15. "The Negro Athlete and Race Prejudice" / Edwin Bancroft Henderson

16. "That Old Southern Accent" / Roy Wilkins

17. "Students, Teachers Blast Ban against Lacrosse Player": Harvard University and the Color Line / Paul D. Davis

18. "Has Professional Football Closed the Door?" / William A. Brower

African American Athletes and Democratic Principles: Interpreting the Desegregation of Sport, 1940s and 1950s

1. "Jackie Robinson on Trial" / Walter White

2. "Campy, Jackie as Dodgers" / Sam Lacy

3. "Negro Baseball Is at the Crossroads" / Effa Manley

4. "American Integration, Black Heroism, and the Meaning of Jackie Robinson" / Gerald Early

5. "Society: Status without Substance" / E. Franklin Frazier

6. "The Top Ten of the First Fifty Years" / Dan Burley

7. Fritz Pollard "Explains Reasons for Having a Negro Hall of Fame"

8. Nelson George on the Harlem Globetrotters

9. "New Faces in Pro Football"

10. "Are There Too Many Negroes in Baseball?"

11. To Desegregate the Golf Courses of America

12. "Racial Integration in the Field of Sports" / Rufus Clement

13. "And They Call This a Democracy": Little League Baseball and the Struggle for Equality

14. "Weekend at the Penn Relays"

15. Mugging of Johnny Bright / Adam Buckley Cohen

16. "The Skies Refused to Fall": Crispus Attucks High School and Indiana Basketball / Andrew W. Ramsey

17. Is Ralph Dupas Negro or White?

18. "What Now?" / Althea Gibson

19. Alex Haley on Wilma Rudolph: "The Queen Who Earned Her Crown"

Sport, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power, 1960s and 1970s

1. "Negro Athletes and Civil Rights"

2. "On the Road in the South, 1960" / Chet Walker

3. "Rebellion at Cal" / A. S. "Doc" Young

4. "Mounting the Revolt" / Harry Edwards

5. Boycott Debate: Tommie Smith on "Why Negroes Should Boycott" the Olympics, and Ralph Boston on "Why They Should Not"

6. "The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston" (1963) / James Baldwin

7. "The Muhammad Ali-Patterson Fight" / Eldridge Cleaver

8. Elijah Muhammad Disciplines Muhammad Ali

9. "Muhammad Ali Faces the Nation"

Progress, Protest, and Alienation in the Sports Factory, 1970s and Beyond

1. Jesse Jackson on Blacks and the Sports $$$

2. "The NFL Sacks the Black Quarterback" / Phil Petrie

3. Eddie Robinson on Grambling's First White Player

4. "We Need to Educate Our Athletes": Higher Education and Sports / Lloyd V. Hackley

5. "Black Women in Sports: Can We Get off the Track?" / Marian E. Washington

6. "In America's National Pastime...White Is the Color of the Game off the Field" / Frank Robinson

7. Racism in Context / Jim Brown

8. Decathlete as Community-Builder / Rafer Johnson

9. "A Team's True Colors": Washington Redskins on and off the Field / David Aldridge

10. Interview with Calvin Hill / David Zang

11. Margo Jefferson on Arthur Ashe: "On the Court, in the World"

Black Cultural Commentary: Race Relations and Sport at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

1. "Delusions of Grandeur" / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

2. Overcoming Obstacles / Anita DeFrantz

3. "Left Behind": Title IX and Black Women Athletes / Welch Suggs

4. "Dreams of Conquest" / Bell Hooks

5. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a Woman of Substance

6. "Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire" / Michael Eric Dyson

7. "Playing Dennis Rodman" / John Edgar Wideman

8. "Iverson's Posse" / Nikki Giovanni

9. Michael Wilbon on Tiger Woods: "History in Black and White"

10. "NFL's Silent Majority Afraid to Force Change" / William C. Rhoden

11. Venus Williams's Star Endorsements

12. "The Next Millennium" / Kenneth Shropshire

13. "Performance and Reality: Race, Sports, and the Modern World" / Gerald Early

14. "The Decline of the Black Athlete" / Harry Edwards.