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The secret game : a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph

Summary: Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316244627
  • ISBN: 9780316244626
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Back Bay edition
  • Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-375) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Spring 1944 -- Aubrey -- Negroes with LaSalles -- Big dog -- "Nobody wanted to mess with him" -- Fathers and sons -- Lawrence -- "That's how you do it!" -- Berlin, 1936 -- Racehorse basketball -- Hoosiers -- City of stone -- Blue devil -- Medicine ball -- "He can't sit there" -- Burgess -- A Knock at the door -- "You could see it in their eyes" -- New York -- The Secret game -- "Did you hear about ..." -- Look away -- Epilogue -- Afterword: The ghosts of Jim Crow.
Subject:
Duke University Basketball
North Carolina College for Negroes Basketball
Basketball North Carolina Durham
Discrimination in sports North Carolina

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library NC 796.3236 ELL (Text) 36015000620670 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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