Ira Berkow 
The DuSable Panthers [EPUB ebook] 
The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Streets in Chicago

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Twelve years before Kentucky and Texas Christian.  Seven years after Jackie Robinson’s first at-bat in the Majors.  A color barrier in both sports and in America was shattered—by a team of teenage boys.


The weight of a season and the weight of growing up are burdens enough.  For a high school basketball team in Chicago in 1954, the weight of history joined them every time they stepped onto the court.  “The Wonder Five” were from Du Sable High School, a predominantly black area of Chicago, a city with a harrowing record on race relations.  It is also one of America’s preeminent basketball cities, and The Wonder Five’s spectacular skill and immense poise carried them through the season and into the record books as the first all-black team, led by a black coach, to reach the highest levels of an organized, integrated, traditional sports program in America.  When Du Sable reached the finals of the state tournament for Illinois, it made history the minute its five starters stepped onto the court.


Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ira Berkow goes in-depth to explore the historical and sociological background that led to Du Sable, as well as painting that championship game in his inimitable style.  In one of the most emotional, suspenseful, and bizarre games that anyone had ever seen, Du Sable played a team from Mount Vernon, a small, southern Illinois town, predominantly white, save for its one star player.  What happened in the game, and the aftermath, changed the lives of these young men forever. 

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 198 ● ISBN 9781626813939 ● Saiz fail 4.5 MB ● Penerbit Diversion Books ● Diterbitkan 2014 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 5275432 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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