"This book contributes significantly to the fields of sports history, African American history, U.S. history, and civil rights history and provides a fresh look at the integration of college athletics from several different regions of the United States. This interregional focus illustrates the complex and multifaceted ways in which integration-primarily in college athletics-occurred in the post-World War II era. It also reveals much about the broader forces that shaped the push to dismantle barriers to political, economic, and social equality." - Michael E. Lomax (University of Iowa, Department of Health and Sports Studies, Associate Professor) "In using college football as a means for understanding the civil rights movement, this book reveals much about broad issues surrounding integration and the push to break down racial barriers and is a valuable resource for those interested in sports, civil rights, and African American history. Recommended." (Choice) "This book will occupy an important-and previously empty-place on the bookshelf of American sports history for many years to come." - Murray Sperber (American Historical Review) "College Athletes, Phones in Hand, Force Shift in Protest Movement" by Alan Blinder and Billy Witz
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/sports/ncaafootball/george-floyd-protests- college-sports.html
(New York Times) "The Impact and Evolution of College Football Player Protest," by Alex Kirshner
https://www.theringer.com/2020/6/30/21307518/college-football-player-protests -black-lives-matter-movement (The Ringer) "This book contributes significantly to the fields of sports history, African American history, U.S. history, and civil rights history and provides a fresh look at the integration of college athletics from several different regions of the United States. This interregional focus illustrates the complex and multifaceted ways in which integration-primarily in college athletics-occurred in the post-World War II era. It also reveals much about the broader forces that shaped the push to dismantle barriers to political, economic, and social equality." - Michael E. Lomax (University of Iowa, Department of Health and Sports Studies, Associate Professor) "In using college football as a means for understanding the civil rights movement, this book reveals much about broad issues surrounding integration and the push to break down racial barriers and is a valuable resource for those interested in sports, civil rights, and African American history. Recommended." (Choice) "This book will occupy an important-and previously empty-place on the bookshelf of American sports history for many years to come." - Murray Sperber (American Historical Review) "Lane Demas paints a richer, more nuanced portrait of how race shaped college football." (American Studies) "College Athletes, Phones in Hand, Force Shift in Protest Movement" by Alan Blinder and Billy Witz
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/sports/ncaafootball/george-floyd-protests- college-sports.html
(New York Times)