A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 3 (1946-1992): A History of the African-American Athlete

Sports & Outdoors

Ashe, Arthur

Miscellaneous

Amistad

Arthur Ashe: Portrait in Motion

Between Wimbledon 1973 and Wimbledon 1974 top tennis professional Arthur Ashe played center court on five continents, made 129 airplane trips, slept in 71 different beds, and traveled 165,000 miles. The dramatic diary he kept throughout that time on and off the court is the basis of this book. of photographs.

Arthur Ashe: Portrait In Motion

Ballantine Books

Days of Grace: A Memoir

"Touching and courageous...All of it--the man, the life, the book--is rare and beautiful." COSMOPOLITAN DAYS OF GRACE is an inspiring memoir of a remarkable man who was the true embodiment of courage, elegance, and the spirit to fight: Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, and person with AIDS. Frank, revealing, touching--DAYS OF GRACE is the story of a man felled to soon. It remains as his legacy to us all.... AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

Biographies & Memoirs

Rampersad, Arnold

Community & Culture

Houghton Miffion, 1975

A history of black athletes spanning three hundred years traces the history of sports to African, culture, features profiles of black athletic stars, and explores the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and other events on black sports

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete 1619-1918

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Examines the career of tennis great Arthur Ashe and discusses his off-court endeavors, including his struggle against apartheid and his efforts to gain recognition for the Black athletes of South Africa

Off the Court

Signet

A Hard Road to Glory, 1946-Present (A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete, 3rd Edition)

wiley

A Hard Road to Glory, 1919-1945 (A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete, 3rd Edition)

"The definitive documentation of African American sporting history." --Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated Arthur Ashe's A Hard Road to Glory expertly captures the epic struggles and hard-won achievements of African American athletes throughout history. This revised and expanded Third Edition features new introductions, new photographs, new data, and a fourth volume that brings Ashe's classic up to the present day. Volume 1 follows the emergence of sports in African American daily life and covers the period that gave rise to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion; Marshall Taylor, "the world's fastest cyclist"; and Isaac Murphy, the first three-time winner of the Kentucky Derby. Volume 2 encompasses America's golden age of sports, when segregation led to the formation of independent black athletic organizations and Jesse Owens and Joe Louis became international sports figures. Volume 3 opens as Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color line and shows how, as the sports industry becomes big business, athletes from Muhammad Ali to Curt Flood and Spencer Haywood begin to claim their places in the spotlight. Volume 4 takes updated material from the previous edition of Volume 3 (1970--1986) and brings the series up to date with all-new material on the last two decades, in which African American athletes become the most dominant and characteristic players in the NBA, the NFL, and Major League Baseball. "For any reader trying to understand the relationship between sports and society and why there are so many blacks on the playing field but so few coaching and in the front offices and in the news media, I cannot commend A Hard Road to Glory too highly." --David Halberstam, The New York Times "No library should be without A Hard Road to Glory." --Stan Isaacs, New York Newsday Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. (1943--1993), was a social activist, author, and scholar as well as the winner of tennis championships at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the World Cup Team Finals.

A Hard Road to Glory, 1919-1945: A History of the African American Athlete 1919-1945 (2) (A Hard Road to Glory, 2)

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

A Hard Road to Glory, 1946 - 1969: A History of the African American Athlete 1946-1969 (3) (A Hard Road to Glory, 3)

History

Americas

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