9781451643176-1451643179-Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integrat

Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integrat

ISBN-13: 9781451643176
ISBN-10: 1451643179
Edition: Reprint
Author: Tom Graham, Rachel Graham Cody
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Atria
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781451643176
ISBN-10: 1451643179
Edition: Reprint
Author: Tom Graham, Rachel Graham Cody
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Atria
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integrat (ISBN-13: 9781451643176 and ISBN-10: 1451643179), written by authors Tom Graham, Rachel Graham Cody, was published by Atria in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Cultural & Regional books. You can easily purchase or rent Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integrat (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cultural & Regional books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Bill Garrett was the Jackie Robinson of college basketball. In 1947, the same year Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, Garrett integrated big-time college basketball. By joining the basketball program at Indiana University, he broke the gentleman's agreement that had barred black players from the Big Ten, college basketball's most important conference. While enduring taunts from opponents and pervasive segregation at home and on the road, Garrett became the best player Indiana had ever had, an all-American, and, in 1951, the third African American drafted in the NBA. In basketball, as Indiana went so went the country. Within a year of his graduation from IU, there were six African American basketball players on Big Ten teams. Soon tens, then hundreds, and finally thousands walked through the door Garrett opened to create modern college and professional basketball. Unlike Robinson, however, Garrett is unknown today. Getting Open is more than "just" a basketball book. In the years immediately following World War II, sports were at the heart of America's common culture. And in the fledgling civil rights efforts of African Americans across the country, which would coalesce two decades later into the Movement, the playing field was where progress occurred publicly and symbolically. Indiana was an unlikely place for a civil rights breakthrough. It was stone-cold isolationist, widely segregated, and hostile to change. But in the late 1940s, Indiana had a leader of the largest black YMCA in the world, who viewed sports as a wedge for broader integration; a visionary university president, who believed his institution belonged to all citizens of the state; a passion for high school and college basketball; and a teenager who was, as nearly as any civil rights pioneer has ever been, the perfect person for his time and role. This is the story of how they came together to move the country toward getting open.

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