Tradewinds Sport Book
Sports and Politics
Struggles for freedom, equality, and civil rights have taken place at legislative assemblies, battlefields, and courthouses. Other struggles, however, have taken place within the world of sports. For generations, African Americans have debated the merits of sports as a means of achieving racial equality. With that conversation in mind, Wiggins and Miller have amassed this collection of documents about the presence of African Americans in sports.
A Historical View of Race in Sports
Although the majority of the book covers the mid-twentieth century, the collection begins in antebellum days. In a short but necessary chapter, the editors present descriptions of slaves’ leisure activity and discover the first cases of athletics as a way out of forced servitude. However, that opportunity was not always perceived positively, as evidenced by a Frederick Douglass article that denounced leisure activity as debilitating.
The early days of Jim Crow marked an increased interest in sports among African Americans – and a stronger relationship between race relations in sports in particular and in the United States in general. This separate-but-equal era produced the stories of baseball players who were excluded from playing in leagues with white players. In light of such discrimination, black Americans built their own sporting traditions (e.g., black college football).
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