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Subject(s)

• African American basketball players—Biography [Browse]
• African American college athletes—Biography [Browse]
• African American college students—Biography [Browse]
• Discrimination in sports—United States [Browse]
• Racism in sports—United States [Browse]
• College sports—United States [Browse]
• Atlantic Coast Conference—History [Browse]
• Southeastern Conference—History [Browse]

Summary note

"Now thoroughly revised and updated, Across the Line recounts the experiences of the pioneering African-American basketball players at 18 colleges in the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences, the South's most prominent, historically white intercollegiate leagues"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: the way of things
• Part one: vanguard
• An uneasy fit / Billy Jones and Pete Johnson, University of Maryland
• Forms of hell / Perry Wallace, Vanderbilt University
• Between worlds / C. B. Claiborne, Duke University
• Fall from grace / Henry Harris Jr., Auburn University
• The loneliest number / Charles Scott, University of North Carolina
• Door jamb / Wendell Hudson, University of Alabama
• Part two: changing of the guard
• Pipe dream / Norwood Todmann, Wake Forest University
• Prisoner of choice / Tom Payne Jr., University of Kentucky
• Friendly bounce / Al Heartley, North Carolina State University
• Penn Pall / Ronnie Hogue, University of Georgia
• Forbidden territory / Craig Mobley, Clemson University, and Casey Manning, University of South Carolina
• All in the family / Collis Temple Jr., Louisiana State University
• Shooting the hoop / Coolidge Ball, University of Mississippi
• Part three: rear guard
• Later gators / Malcolm Meeks and Steve Williams, University of Florida
• Far from home / Al Drummond, University of Virginia
• Actions speak / Wilbert Cherry and Larry Robinson, University of Tennessee
• Sneakers / Larry Fry and Jerry Jenkins, Mississippi State University
• Appendix

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ISBN

• 9781493069217 (paperback)
• 1493069217 (paperback)

LCCN

2022019783

OCLC

1333157997

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