Many are familiar with Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major
League Baseball after all the years of separate black and white
leagues, but fewer people know of the segregation and then
integration of the National Football League. The timing and
sequence of events were different, but football followed a pattern
similar to that of baseball in regard to the beginning and end of
racial segregation. This work traces professional football's
movement from segregation to integration, beginning with a
discussion of the various reasons why the game was segregated to
begin with. The schemes that NFL owners came up with to ban African
Americans from the league in the 1930s and 1940s, and how these
barriers broke down after World War II, are described and the
author considers how professional football overcame the legacies of
Jim Crow and how Jim Crow laws may still haunt the game.
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