Bobby Marshall starred in football, baseball, hockey, and track at the University of Minnesota. Overcoming obstacles to success that many African Americans faced at the time, he went on to become the first African American All American from the Big Ten in football, and the first to play in the nascent NFL. This is his story.

Looks at the 1967 football season leading up to that year's black college championship between Grambling College and Florida A & M, and how it fit into the civil rights struggles of the time.

Marion Motley was a Hall of Fame fullback, and one of four Black players who reintegrated pro football in 1946 when he signed with the Cleveland Browns. Yet one of the sport’s greatest and most impactful players remains unknown to most Americans. This book tells Motley’s story of adversity, personal tragedy, and triumphs.

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"[The author] offers a fresh and timely account of women in sports in the 1920s, and how their determination, talent, and defiance in the face of criticism promoted women's rights, redefined femininity, and changed the course of history"--Provided by publisher.

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