We Will Win The Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality (Race and Sports)

Professor Moore's examination of equality in sports and society, not as a milestone that occurred on April 15, 1947, but as an ongoing and incomplete sequence of steps forward and backward taken by athletes and allies in all sports and at all levels provides a much needed context not only for understanding our present with any level of intellectual honesty and depth but for blueprinting a better future. Of particular note is his extensive use of the Black press as source material. In reading this book I not only learned about a number of heroes I knew nothing about but gained new perspective even on stories I thought I knew well.

The price scared me off for some time but if you are interested in this subject, you'll be rewarded.It is easy to forget that, 15 years after Jackie Robinson broke in with the Dodgers, Jim Crow stil rulg wed the south. Spring training was segregated., NFL teams would schedule games in the south-and directed to leave black players on the beech or, not travel at all.College sports get a good examination. The bottom line: protest didn't begin with Colin Kaepernick

Recommend reading for all who need to know why the NFL players took a knee.

—- on my TO BE READ agenda...!!