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The secret game a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph

Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	North Carolina College for Negroes > Basketball. Duke University > Basketball. Basketball > North Carolina > Durham. Discrimination in sports > North Carolina.
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Summary:	Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team.
Physical Description:	viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index.
ISBN:	0316244619 9780316244619
Author Notes:	Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game , which was the winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is the author of Death in a Promised Land , his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race riot. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Ann Arbor, where he teaches at the University of Michigan.