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More than a century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, black athletes were dominating America's first national sport. The sport was horse racing, and the greatest jockeys of all were slaves and the sons of slaves. Cheered by thousands of Americans in the North and South, they rode to victory in all of the major stakes, including the very first Kentucky Derby.
Although their glory days ranged from the early 1700s to the turn of the 20th century, the memory of these great black jockeys was erased from history.
The Great Black Jockeys is the first book about the lives and times of the forgotten men whose extraordinary skills were a wonder to behold, men with names like "Honest Ike" Murphy, Abe Hawkins, Willie Simms, Austin Curtis, Jimmy Winkfield, and dozens more. This is also a story of a young country where whole towns turned out in cleared fields to cheer and place wagers on magnificent horses and the men who rode them, and where the greatest athletes in the land were the property of others.
For fleeting moments on the racecourse black riders in colorful silks tasted the glory and freedom that slavery had denied them.
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African American jockeys, Biography, History, Horse racingPlaces
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Great Black Jockeys
January 27, 1999, Prima Lifestyles
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0761514376 9780761514374
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The great black jockeys: the lives and times of the men who dominated America's first national sport
1999, Forum
in English
0761514376 9780761514374
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Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America's First National Sport
January 1999, Diane Pub Co
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078819643X 9780788196430
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The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America's First National Sport
August 1, 1999, Three Rivers Press
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1400080703 9781400080700
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