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The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing - Hardcover

Poehler, Bill

 
9781641602297: The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1641602295 ISBN 13: 9781641602297
Verlag: LAWERENCE HILL, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn’t a white male from the sport. But Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, drove into the center of “outlaw” auto racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In The Brown Bullet, journalist Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, showing ultimately how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, winning some of the biggest races of the day.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bill Poehler is an award-winning investigative journalist based in the Pacific Northwest, where he has worked as a reporter for the Statesman Journal for 21 years. His work has appeared in the Oregonian, the Eugene Register-Guard, and the Corvallis Gazette-Times; online at OPB.org and KGW.com; and in magazines including Slant Six News, Racing Wheels, National Speed Sport News, and Dirt Track Digest.
 

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Verlag
LAWERENCE HILL
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1641602295
ISBN 13 
9781641602297
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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