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.
Main Author: | Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) (Author) |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2015.
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Edition: | First edition. |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
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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Physical Description: |
viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index. |
ISBN: |
0316244619 9780316244619 |
Author Notes: |
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. |