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Michael E. Lomax is former professor of sport history at the University of Iowa. He is author or editor of several books, including Major League Baseball between World War II and the Korean War, 1945-1951 and Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi. His second book, Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues, won a book award from the Society for American Baseball Research. Billy J. Hawkins is professor of sport sociology in the Department of Health and Human Performance. He is author of The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions and coauthor of Sport, Race, Activism, and Social Change: The Impact of Dr. Harry Edwards’ Scholarship and Service.
Sports and the Racial Divide provides a rich sociohistorical account of the role sports and athletes play in contemporary political activism."" - John N. Singer, associate professor of sport management in the School of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University
