Conspiracy of Silence
Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
CHRIS LAMB
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Description
The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and less about the efforts to end it. Even today, as far as most Americans know, the integration of baseball revolved around Branch Rickey’s signing of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers’ organization in 1945. This book shows how Rickey’s move, critical as it may well have been, came after more than a decade of work by black and left-leaning journalists to desegregate the game.

- $39.99
- Category: Baseball
- Published: Jul 03, 2012
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Seller: The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
- Print Length: 413 Pages
- Language: English
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