HIST 4006: Race and Ethnicity in American Sport History
Library Research
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Subject Encyclopedias
Use subject encyclopedias, such as the ones listed below, to help you get the "big picture" on your topic--and to help place it in context.
African Americans in Sports by Call Number: E-book (Also available in Waldo Library General Stacks GV 583 .A567 2004)ISBN: 1317477448Publication Date: 2015-03-26
Native Americans in Sports by Call Number: E-book (Also available in Waldo Library General Stacks GV 583 .N34 2004)ISBN: 1317464028Publication Date: 2015-03-10
Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States by Call Number: E-book (Also available in Waldo Library General Stacks GV 709.5 .E83 2000)ISBN: 0313299110Publication Date: 2000-04-30
Research Collection
The Routledge History of American Sport by Call Number: Waldo Library General Stacks GV 583 .R68 2016 (Also available in Waldo Library WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)ISBN: 9781138786752Publication Date: 2016-10-14
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Tennis Trailblazer
Althea Gibson was a champion tennis competitor, and the first African American woman to be on the world tour, and the first to win the Grand Slam title, which she did in 1956. She was called the "Jackie Robinson of tennis" for helping to break the color barrier in this sport.
(Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; by New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer Fred Palumbo, 1956)