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Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football (Hardcover)
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Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football (Hardcover)
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Black college football began during the nadir of African American
life after the Civil War. The first game occurred in 1892, a little
less than four years before the Supreme Court ruled segregation
legal in Plessy v. Ferguson. In spite of Jim Crow segregation,
Black colleges produced some of the best football programs in the
country. They mentored young men who became teachers, preachers,
lawyers, and doctors--not to mention many other professions--and
transformed Black communities. But when higher education was
integrated, the programs faced existential challenges as
predominately white institutions steadily set about recruiting
their student athletes and hiring their coaches. Blood, Sweat, and
Tears explores the legacy of Black college football, with Florida
A&M's Jake Gaither as its central character, one of the most
successful coaches in its history. A paradoxical figure, Gaither
led one of the most respected Black college football programs, yet
many questioned his loyalties during the height of the civil rights
movement. Among the first broad-based histories of Black college
athletics, Derrick E. White's sweeping story complicates the heroic
narrative of integration and grapples with the complexities and
contradictions of one of the most important sources of Black pride
in the twentieth century.
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