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Sport and the Talented Tenth: African American Athletes at the Colleges and Universities of the Northeast, 1879-1920
Sport and the Talented Tenth African American Athletes at the Colleges and Universities of the Northeast 18791920
Author: Robert E. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois called for a Negro elite, the "talented tenth" of the African American population to become the leaders of the race. This is the story of a portion of that intelligentsia, true Renaissance men whose talents extended beyond scholarship to the fields of sport and athletic competition. They were scholar-athletes who found themselves i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781440175510
ISBN-10: 1440175519
Publication Date: 1/20/2010
Pages: 648
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Publisher: Iuniverse
Book Type: Paperback
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