Out of the shadows: a biographical history of African American athletes

Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger

Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie

The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond

Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems

Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy

Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey

Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson

Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds

Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury

Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax

"Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle

Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson

Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith

Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable

Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early

"The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas

Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann

"Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope

"Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers.