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The Secret Game: A Basketball Story in Black and White
By Ellsworth, Scott
- ISBN
- 9780316244619 9780316244633
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Duke history professor Ellsworth's first book in more than 30 years (Death in a Promised Land) tells the story behind the first racially integrated college basketball game in the American South, a secretly planned and played 1944 contest pitting the high-scoring, fast-breaking Eagles from the North Carolina College for Negroes (NCCN; now North Carolina Central University) against an all-white, geographically diverse military recruit squad from Duke School of Medicine. Ellsworth focuses o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
