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Coverage extends from the 1800s through 2002 and addresses athletics at both the national and international level. More than 400 articles have been written by almost 80 contributors, and while the majority are biographical, additional pieces address individual sports, teams, and organizations and associations. Thoughtful essays deal with social issues such as racial theories and civil rights. Biographical entries cover not only athletes but also coaches, managers, entrepreneurs, and sportswriters. Forty articles are devoted to women athletes. Basketball, baseball, boxing, football, and track-and-field all have multipage entries, while shorter articles address such activities as lacrosse, rodeo, bowling, and fencing. The Harlem Globetrotters have an entry, as does the Wake-Robin Club, an association founded in 1937 for African American women golfers. Additional articles address how African American athletes have been represented in such genres as autobiography and film.
Occasional black-and-white archival photographs accompany the text. A list of entries by category, a general index, an index by sport, a general bibliography, and a chronology provide support. Public, academic, and secondary school libraries will want to offer this title. RBB
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