| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League. By Charles K. Ross. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xii, 201 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8147-7495-4.)

The struggle against the color line in sport is a primary theme, and rightly so, running through practically every book and article published on the history of the African American athlete beginning with overviews such as Edwin B. Henderson's The Negro in Sports (1939) and Arthur Ashe's three-volume treatment, A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete (1993). The struggle in professional football received the specific attention of a professional historian when Thomas G. Smith published his two pathbreaking articles in the Journal of Sport History: "Civil Rights on the Gridiron: The Kennedy Administration and the Washington Redskins" (summer 1987) and "Outside the Pale: The Exclusion of Blacks from Organized Professional Football, 1934–1946," which was part of a special issue devoted to the black athlete in American sport (winter 1988). Charles K. Ross's Outside the Lines is largely a synthesis of previously published work on the subject and is most likely intended for a general audience. . . .

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