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Breaking the line : the season in Black college football that transformed the sport and changed the course of civil rights / Samuel G. Freedman.

by Freedman, Samuel G.

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Simon & Schuster, c2013.

Football -- United States -- History.

College sports -- United States -- History.

Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.

Football players, Black -- United States -- Biography

9781439189771 (hc.)

1439189773 (hc.)

9781439189788 (trade pbk.)

1439189781 (trade pbk.)

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

xii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.

Behind God's back -- Draw water where you can -- The laboratory for manhood -- Spared for something -- Somebody has got to pay -- The best quarterback tonight -- Diplomacy with downtown -- That's my blood -- Borrowed time -- Juneteenth in December -- History in the air -- Epilogue: Their lives, their legacy -- 1967 regular-season records -- Starting lineups.

Looks at the 1967 football season leading up to that year's black college championship between Grambling College and Florida A&M, and how it fit into the civil rights struggles of the time.

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