Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South

By Bruce Adelson

Book Overview

While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among them Hank Aaron, continued to struggle for acceptance... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926459
• ISBN13: 9780813926452
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher