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Description

1. 223 pages : illustrations, facsmiles; 23 cm

Summary

1. "It was a front-page story in the New York Times that New York University decided to honor seven students who, sixty years earlier, the University disciplined and punished. The Bates 7, as the protest leaders became known, took constructive action when rumors spread in the fall of 1940 that black star running back Len Bates was going to be left behind when the football team ventured down to Columbia, Missouri to play the University of Missouri Tigers. They heard that Missouri invoked the gentlemen's agreement and would not allow an interracial sporting event in Columbia. The protests grew in size, eventually numbering thousands of protesters, and impacted collegiate athletics throughout the nation. The Bates 7 protest made a significant contribution to the national civil rights movement that would follow. This is the first and only book-length account of the protests that occurred at NYU that helped to change college sports forever. It is the story of Len Bates and the seven brave students who did not compromise in their fight against Jim Crow in college football. The study is based on extensive and exclusive interviews with Len Bates and the Bates 7 and in-depth research into the movement and the era"--

Subject

1. Bates, Leonard
2. New York University > Football > History > 20th century
3. New York University Violets (Football team) > History > 20th century
4. New York University
5. 1900-1999
6. African American football players > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
7. Student movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
8. Civil rights movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
9. Racism in sports > United States > History > 20th century
10. Discrimination in sports > United States > History > 20th century
11. College sports > United States > History > 20th century
12. African American football players
13. Civil rights movements
14. College sports
15. Discrimination in sports
16. Football
17. Race relations
18. Racism in sports
19. Student movements
20. Racism
21. United States > Race relations > 20th century
22. New York (State) > New York
23. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. More than a game -- Jim Crow's American sport -- Self-made man and athlete -- Making the team -- "Give the nigger the ball" -- Bates must play -- The petitions speak -- Speak truth to power and power speaks back -- Scoring against the gentlemen's agreement -- 60 years left on the clock.

Call number

1. Sc D 22-825

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Spivey, Donald, author.

Title

1. Racism, activism, and integrity in college football : the Bates must play movement / Donald Spivey.

Publisher

1. Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2021]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

LCCN

1. 2021010424

ISBN

1. 9781531021740 (paperback)
2. 1531021743 (paperback)

Research call number

1. Sc D 22-825