African-American athletes have played a significant role in the development and popularity of American professional sports, and have encountered numerous obstac

This book profiles some of the greatest African-American athletes of the past 150 years. They competed in sports ranging from boxing and horse racing to track a

Author Carla Mooney explores African American involvement in sports in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. Blacks' participation in ho

The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of t

A multi-sport biographical dictionary of 166 African-American athletes, coaches, and administrators. Contains personal background information as well as career