The secret game : a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball's lost triumph
by Ellsworth, Scott (Historian) (Author)
Summary
Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team. Full description
- Spring 1944
- Aubrey
- Negroes with LaSalles
- Big dog
- "Nobody wanted to mess with him"
- Fathers and sons
- Lawrence
- "That's how you do it!"
- Berlin, 1936
- Racehorse basketball
- Hoosiers
- City of stone
- Blue devil
- Medicine ball
- "He can't sit there"
- Burgess
- A knock at the door
- "You could see it in their eyes"
- New York
- The secret game
- "Did you hear about ..."
- Look away
- The ghosts of Jim Crow.