{"product_id":"conspiracy-of-silence-sportswriters-and-the-long-campaign-to-desegregate-baseball-9780803210769","title":"Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball","description":"The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and less about the efforts to end it. Even today, as far as most Americans know, the integration of baseball revolved around Branch Rickey's signing of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization in 1945. This book shows how Rickey's move, critical as it may well have been, came after more than a decade of work by black and left-leaning journalists to desegregate the game.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on hundreds of newspaper articles and interviews with journalists, Chris Lamb reveals how differently black and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed racial equality. He shows how white mainstream sportswriters perpetuated the color line by participating in what their black counterparts called a \"conspiracy of silence.\" Between 1933 and 1945, black newspapers and the Communist\u003ci\u003e Daily Worker\u003c\/i\u003e published hundreds of articles and editorials calling for an end to baseball's color line. The efforts of the alternative presses to end baseball's color line, chronicled for the first time in \u003ci\u003eConspiracy of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, constitute one of baseball's--and the civil rights movement's--great untold stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lamb, Chris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803210769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.39w x 1.33d","brand":"Chris Lamb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32746539221067,"sku":"9780803210769","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_5dd63dd3-e06a-49b6-b8de-697bdd51d322.jpg?v=1597719436","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/conspiracy-of-silence-sportswriters-and-the-long-campaign-to-desegregate-baseball-9780803210769","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}