The Badgers
Milwaukee’s NFL Entry
of 1922-1926
by Michael D. Benter
List Price: $32.50
ISBN: 978-1-937943-07-3
In his history of the Milwaukee Badgers, Michael Benter tells not only the complete story of the Milwaukee team but also the history of pro football as it developed in the Midwest.
read moreAn Unbreakable Bond: The Brotherhood of Maurice Stokes and Jack Twyman
by Pat Farabaugh
List Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-937943-17-2
Maurice Stokes seemed destined for greatness in the National Basketball Association. An All-American at tiny Saint Francis College in western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh native earned NBA Rookie-of-the-Year honors in 1956 and broke the league’s single-season rebounding record in 1957.
read moreA Black National News Service
The Associated Negro Press and Claude Barnett
by Lawrence D. Hogan
List Price: $18.50
ISBN: 978-1-878282-22-4
In this revised and enlarged edition of his ground-breaking work, Professor Hogan presents the history of black journalism and the efforts of Claude Barnett, a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, to establish a national black news service
read more“Collie J”
Grambling’s Man with the Golden Pen
by Michael Hurd
List Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-878282-48-4
Collie James Nicholson did not want to settle for second best in anything. He became the first black combat correspondent in the U.S. Marine Corps and then went on to become a celebrated sports publicist.
read moreHarlem From the Rectory Window
by Rev. John Howard Johnson
List Price: $22.50
ISBN: 978-1-878282-04-0
Originally titled Fact Not Fiction In Harlem this intriguing account of Harlem as seen through the eyes of “the number one citizen of Harlem and one of the first citizens of New York City” takes the reader through all the lows and highs of this great community and brings a perspective that is rare for a clergyman who also walked in the upper echelons of the then white-dominated Episcopal Church.
read moreNegro Baseball…Before Integration
by Effa Manley & Leon Herbert Hardwick
List Price: $19.95 (Paper), $29.95 (Hard Cover)
ISBN: 978-1-878282-43-9 (Paper)
ISBN: 978-1-878282-44-6 (Hard Cover)
Since its publication in 1976, Negro Baseball has been an indispensable source of information for historians and fans interested in reconstructing black America’s baseball past. Effa Manley’s ability to set her story within a broader social and cultural context has made her work much more than a baseball book.
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