Gretchen Atwood, "Lost Champions: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football's Color Line"
English | ISBN: 1620406004 | 2016 | 288 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
The story of the integration of professional football-the year before Jackie Robinson did the same for baseball-has been overlooked for too long.
Many know the story of Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball in 1947. But few know that the NFL integrated a year earlier, when Kenny Washington stepped on the field for the Los Angeles Rams.
He wasn't the only one. Four men broke pro football's color line in 1946, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode with the Los Angeles Rams and Bill Willis and Marion Motley with the Cleveland Browns.
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