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After decades of racial integration, racism still pervades U.S. sports. Myers (dir. of equity and inclusion, Choate Rosemary Hall) examines the barriers faced by Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American athletes, coaches, and journalists, as well as their responses to racism. Myers looks at the 1940s benching of Leonard Bates and Lucien V. Alexis Jr., two Black student athletes who were forced to sit out games when their schools played against institutions with racist policies; the Black player Curt Flood's 1969 antitrust suit against Major League Baseball; the Williams sisters' boy...Log In or Sign Up to Read More