Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf

Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1998. Firts ed., first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine in fine(-) jacket with a tiny bit of foxing, soiling and wear, in archival mylar.. x, 216 pages: illustrations; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 190-201) and index. Contents: Introduction: unrequited love -- When the word was given -- Five trailblazers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. George Grant -- Walter Speedy -- John Shippen -- Joseph Bartholomew -- Dewey Brown -- Humpin' Bags-The black caddie -- A struggle for self-reliance -- Between the wars -- World War II and return to peacetime. The armed forces and black golf -- Theodore "Ted" Rhodes -- Howard "Butch" Wheeler -- The struggle within a struggle. Ann Gregory -- Paris Brown -- Ethel Funches -- Althea Gibson -- Phyllis Meekins -- Renee Powell -- La Ree Pearl Sugg -- From the clubhouse to the courthouse. William "Bill" Spiller -- Benefactors, boosters, and businessmen. Unheralded black scribes -- Joseph Louis Barrow -- Jackie Robinson -- Billy Eckstine -- Moss H. Kendrix -- Ray Mitchell -- Earl Jackson -- Figures in the Shadows -- Helping hands across the racial divide -- Adding up the score. "Modern" professional golfers -- Golf instructors -- Black golf halls of fame -- Black golf publications -- Black golf organizations -- Building the pipeline: youth and college golf -- Appendices -- A: Noted black caddies and their courses -- B: Black-owned golf courses -- C: Notable dates in African-American golf history.

"Forbidden Fairways is not just a history of the African Americans who have been playing golf for over 200 years but a tribute to them as well. From the unnamed South Carolina enslaved young man who first dared to hit a golf ball when his master wasn't looking . . . to another young man named Tiger who dared to win the Masters while the whole world watched. It's a sad story in places, uplifting in others. It's about cruelty, but it's also about courage. It's about pettiness, but it's also about perseverance. It's about golf, but it's about life, too."--Page [2] of cover

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