The play of slave children in the plantation communities of the Old South, 1820-1860

Isaac Murphy: black hero in nineteenth-century American sport, 1861-1896

Peter Jackson and the elusive heavyweight championship: a black athlete's struggle against the late nineteenth-century color line

The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin: the response of America's black press

Wendell Smith, the Pittsburgh Courier-Journal, and the campaign to include blacks in organized baseball, 1933-1945

"The year of awakening": black athletes, racial unrest, and the Civil Rights Movement of 1968

"The future of college athletics is at stake": black athletes and racial turmoil on three predominantly white university campuses, 1968-1972

Victory for Allah: Muhammad Ali, the nation of Islam, and American society

"Great speed but little stamina": the historical debate over black athletic superiority

The notion of double-consciousness and the involvement of black athletes in American sport

Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African American athletes, and the writing of sport history.