Andrew Heidelberg
Autor de The Norfolk 17: A Personal Narrative on Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1958 1962
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- 2
- Miembros
- 11
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- 4.0
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Heidelberg was a star football player growing up, and fought hard to play in high school. He got better through community league play and by his senior year was too good to be left off the high school team. He became the first African American to play white high school football in Virginia. Like many tales of integration through sports, this part of the book combines examples of grotesque racism with accounts of bonding. In one example, Heidelberg is sent to eat in the kitchen of a restaurant and two of his white teammates join him there. The main part of the book ends with the end of Heidelberg's high school years.… (más)