One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major
league baseball in 1947, four black players joined the Cleveland
Browns and Los Angeles Rams to become the first professional
football players of African-American descent in the modern era.
While blacks had played on professional teams in the early days of
pro football, none had joined a team since 1934. In this book
twelve players who began their careers from 1946 to 1955 not only
reminisce about the violence they faced on and off the field, the
segregated hotels and restaurants, and general hostility that comes
with being a trailblazer, but also of white players and coaches who
assisted and supported them at various stages of their lives. Among
the oral histories presented here are those of such Hall of Famers
Bill Willis, Joe Perry, and George Taliaferro.
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