African American Athletes in History
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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website:
"In this lecture, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, gives a brief and entertaining tour of African American athletes throughout American history. From Bill Richmond, a bare knuckles boxer in eighteenth century New York to the barn storming all-black baseball leagues of the late nineteenth century and finally to Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens in the twentieth, Gates uncovers both well known and long forgotten figures who changed American sports both on and off the playing field."