In this Book

Playing for Power: Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia

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Marvin T. Chiles
2025
Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Reveals the role of amateur Black football and basketball in Virginia before integration as a form of resistance to white supremacy

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

pp. vii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix

Introduction

pp. 1

1. The Institutions, 1865–1927

pp. 11

2. The Leadership, 1910–1929

pp. 33

3. The Game, 1930–1944

pp. 55

4. The Controversies, 1932–1951

pp. 70

5. The Integration, 1951–1970

pp. 104

Coda: The Bygone Days are Gone, 1970–Present

pp. 122

Notes

pp. 137

Bibliography

pp. 195

Index

pp. 215
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