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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix PART 1 1. White Sportswriters and Minstrel Shows 3 PART 2 2. The Color Line Is Drawn 29 3. Invisible Men 57 4. “Agitators” and “Social-Minded Drum Beaters” Written with Kelly Rusinack 85 PART 3 5. “L’affaire Jake Powell” 109 6. Major League Managers and Ballplayers Call for End of Color Line 133 PART 4 7. The Double V Campaign 159 8. “The Great White Father” Speaks 187 9. Black Editors Make Their Case for Desegregation 217 10. “Get Those Niggers Off the Field” 249 PART 5 11. Robinson Becomes the Chosen One 283 PART 6 12. “I Never Want to Take Another Trip Like This One” 307 Notes 335 Bibliography 363 Index 375 ...

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