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The Black Athlete in West Virginia : High School and College Sports from 1900 Through the End of Segregation, Paperback / softback Book

The Black Athlete in West Virginia : High School and College Sports from 1900 Through the End of Segregation Paperback / softback

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This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation.

Despite having inadequate resources, the black schools' sports teams thrived during segregation and helped tie the state's scattered black communities together.

West Virginia hosted the nation's first state-wide black high school basketball tournament, which flourished for 33 years, and both Bluefield State and West Virginia State won athletic championships in the prestigious Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (now Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association).

Black schools were gradually closed after the 1954 Brown v.

Board of Education decision, and the desegregation of schools in West Virginia was an important step toward equality.

For black athletes and their communities, the path to inclusion came with many costs.

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