{"product_id":"conspiracy-of-silence-chris-lamb-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 still 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 have been, came after more than a decade of work by Black and left-leaning journalists to desegregate the game. \u003cbr\u003e Drawing 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. Between 1933 and 1945, Black newspapers and the communist \u003ci\u003eDaily Worker\u003c\/i\u003e published hundreds of articles and editorials calling for an end to baseball's color line, while white mainstream sportswriters perpetuated the color line by participating in what their Black counterparts called a \"conspiracy of silence.\" The alternative presses' efforts to end baseball's color line, chronicled for the first time in \u003ci\u003eConspiracy of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, constitute one of the great untold stories of baseball--and the civil rights movement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Lamb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803210760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803210769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.39w x 1.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2012","brand":"Chris Lamb","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44302482899199,"sku":"9780803210769","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41d0b8a5-80a6-4418-94ac-5e8425d522dd.jpg?v=1695161872","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conspiracy-of-silence-chris-lamb-9780803210769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}