The Black Athlete in West Virginia

High School and College Sports from 1900 Through the End of Segregation

Bob Barnett, Dana Brooks, Ronald Althouse (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

235 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7897-9 (ISBN)

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Chronicles sports at West Virginia's forty black high schools and three black colleges, with a particular focus on the impacts of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. While an important step toward equality, the path to inclusion came with many costs.

This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation. Despite having inadequate resources, the black schools' sports teams thrived during segregation and helped tie the state's scattered black communities together. West Virginia hosted the nation's first state-wide black high school basketball tournament, which flourished for 33 years, and both Bluefield State and West Virginia State won athletic championships in the prestigious Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (now Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association). Black schools were gradually closed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the desegregation of schools in West Virginia was an important step toward equality. For black athletes and their communities, the path to inclusion came with many costs.

Bob Barnett is a professor emeritus at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he taught classes in and researched sport history for 35 years and served as chair of the Division of Exercise Science, Sport and Recreation. He was inducted into the West Virginia All Black Schools Sports and Academic Hall of Fame in 2010 for his groundbreaking research on the West Virginia black high school’s basketball tournament. Dana Brooks is the dean and professor emeritus in the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He was at West Virginia University for 41 years and was a former president of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (2009-2010). His research interest focus on the African American athletes’ experience. Ronald Althouse is a professor emeritus in the department of sociology and anthropology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia where he was the director of the survey research center. He contributed to the literature on athletic participation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction by Bob Barnett

Part I. School and College Segregation in West Virginia, 1863–1954

1. African Americans in West Virginia, 1860–1969

2. Intercollegiate Sports in the Black Colleges, 1900–1954

3. The First Black State High School Basketball Tournament in the United States, 1925–1944

4. Earl Lloyd and the Golden Age of West Virginia State University Basketball, 1945–1954

5. The Legacy of Black High School Basketball

Part II. The Integration of West Virginia’s High Schools and Colleges, 1954–1964

6. Integrating Small Colleges

7. From Hal Greer to Randy Moss: The Integration of Marshall University Sports

8. Two Historically Black Colleges Join the White Intercollegiate Conference

9. Black High Schools in the White Basketball Tournament, 1957–1969

10. From Dick Leftridge to Major Harris: A Call for Sports Advocacy at WVU

Epilogue

Appendix: Pioneers in the Integration of College Sports in West Virginia

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2020
Zusatzinfo	35 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-7897-9 / 1476678979
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7897-9 / 9781476678979
Zustand	Neuware