12019-03-12T23:58:56+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282415plainpublished2019-10-14T22:25:08+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74The black press was well suited to capturing the rhythms of sports. Reporters covered daily contests, the ebb and flow of seasons, and important title fights and championship games. African-American newspapers praised the accomplishments of black athletes and saw sports as one of the most visible spaces in which black people could assert their equality. Black papers offered particularly vibrant coverage of black women in sports, such as tennis star Althea Gibson, multisport athlete Ora Washington who led the dominant Philadelphia Tribune basketball team, and Olympian Alice Coachman. Baseball dominated summer sports news, including the 1942 Negro World Series between Satchel Paige’s Kansas City Monarchs and Josh Gibson’s Washington Homestead Grays; Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier; and the three women—Connie Morgan, Toni Stone, and Mamie Johnson—who played professionally in the Negro Leagues. In the fall, attention turned to football, such as the 1958 Orange Blossom Classic between Florida A&M University and Prairie View University, and surveys of the inroads made by black college stars into professional football. Boxing was of year round interest to black newspaper readers, including coverage of title fights by stars such as Joe Louis and “Sugar” Ray Robinson.
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12019-03-12T23:57:41+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824March 31, 19343gallerypublished2019-08-21T11:23:04+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
12019-03-12T23:57:04+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824February 20, 196910plainpublished2019-11-03T22:30:07+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
12019-03-12T23:57:41+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824March 29, 19303plainpublished2019-08-21T11:19:11+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
12019-03-12T23:57:40+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824March 2, 19563plainpublished2019-08-21T11:10:25+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
12019-03-12T23:56:25+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824April 12, 19473plainpublished2019-08-20T14:18:57+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
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12019-03-12T23:58:40+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824September 19, 19424plainpublished2019-10-21T23:41:07+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
12019-03-12T23:57:04+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824February 26, 19493plainpublished2019-08-20T17:17:12+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
12019-03-12T23:57:53+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824May 20, 19483plainpublished2019-08-21T12:42:00+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
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12019-03-12T23:56:18+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a12824April 2, 196611plainpublished2019-11-04T21:00:35+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74
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