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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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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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Table of Contents:
  • Spring 1944
  • Aubrey
  • Negroes with LaSalles
  • Big dog
  • "Nobody wanted to mess with him"
  • Fathers and sons
  • Lawrence
  • "That's how you do it!"
  • Berlin, 1936
  • Racehorse basketball
  • Hoosiers
  • City of stone
  • Blue devil
  • Medicine ball
  • "He can't sit there"
  • Burgess
  • A knock at the door
  • "You could see it in their eyes"
  • New York
  • The secret game
  • "Did you hear about ..."
  • Look away
  • The ghosts of Jim Crow.

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