David K. Wiggins, professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and affiliated faculty member in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997), co-author of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of theAfrican American Experience in Sport (2003), and editor or co-editor of Sport and the Color-Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America (2003), Out ofthe Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes (2008), and Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation (2016). He is the former editor of the Journal of Sport History and currently president-elect of the North American Society for Sport History.

Wiggins, a veteran sports writer and professor at George Mason University, looks at the history ofblack athletes seeking equal participation in American sports in this enlightening history.... This is an enlightening, strongly presented look at African-Americans in sports.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Establishing the Boundaries of Sport: Slavery’s Lasting LegacyChapter 2: Freedom to Participate on an Unlevel Playing FieldChapter 3: Sport Behind the Walls of SegregationChapter 4: Striving to be Full Participants in America’s PastimesChapter 5: Reintegration of Sport and Its AftermathChapter 6: Sport and the Civil Rights MovementChapter 7: Race, Black Athletes, and the Globalization of SportChapter 8: An Altered Athletic LandscapeChronologyBibliographic EssayDocuments