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Across the Line: Tales of the First Black Players in the ACC and SEC
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Across the Line: Tales of the First Black Players in the ACC and SEC Paperback / softback - 2022

by Barry Jacobs

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Paperback / softback. New. Across the Line recounts the experiences of the pioneering African-American basketball players at 18 schools in the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences, the South's most prominent, historically white intercollegiate leagues.
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  • Title Across the Line: Tales of the First Black Players in the ACC and SEC
  • Author Barry Jacobs
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 454
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press
  • Date 2022-11-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781493069217
  • ISBN 9781493069217 / 1493069217
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 6.1 x 1 in (22.10 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects College sports - United States, African American college students
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022019783
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

Now thoroughly revised and updated, Across the Line recounts the experiences of the pioneering African-American basketball players at 18 colleges in the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences, the South's most prominent, historically white intercollegiate leagues.

From the rear cover

Perry Wallace feared he would be shot when he stepped onto a basketball court in a Vanderbilt uniform. Georgia's Ronnie Hogue jumped atop a press table, swinging a chair in self-defense, as a menacing crowd approached following a road game. Craig Noble joined other threatened black students in a rare, en masse flight from the Clemson campus. Maryland's Pete Johnson seethed when a teammate used a racial epithet in a supervised workout and his coaches let it pass. C. B. Claiborne could not attend the Duke team banquet his freshman year because it was held at a white country club.Collis Temple, whose father carried a pistol for protection against marauding whites in rural Louisiana, scuffled with an opposing player each season he played at LSU. Wendell Hudson's mother cried when the Birmingham native, whose family routinely hit the deck each time racists' bombs exploded in their neighborhood, decided to become the first black athlete at the University of Alabama. Al Heartley and other black students locked themselves in a campus dorm at North Carolina State, fearing the actions of an unruly white crowd the night Martin Luther King was assassinated.Across the Line recounts the experiences of the pioneering African-American basketball players at eighteen schools in the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern Conferences, the South's most prominent, historically white intercollegiate leagues. Set within the context of the tumultuous 1960s and early 1970s, grounded in the civil rights struggles on campus and within the larger community, and enriched by the viewpoint of players, relatives, coaches, teammates, opponents, and other observers, this book tells an important and long-neglected story combining race, sports, and social history.

About the author

Barry Jacobs has covered college basketball as well as news and other sports since 1976 for numerous publications, among them the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, People, Oceans, the Saturday Evening Post and the Sporting News. He is the author of four books, including Coach K's Little Blue Book, The World According to Dean, and Three Paths to Glory. For 14 years he wrote the Fan's Guide to ACC Basketball. He also served as an elected county commissioner for 20 years and supervises Moorefields, an historic site near Hillsborough, NC.