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15 Cards in this Set
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What did Malcome X think about Jackie Robinson?
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He thought he was weak.
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What writer helped to desegregate major league baseball?
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Cester Rodney
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Why did Roy Campanella compare the desegregation of MLB to Brown vs Board of Education.
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It led to equal rights
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Who was the best pitcher Joe DiMaggio ever faced?
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Jackie Robinson
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what team did Jackie Robinson make his MLB debut with?
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Dodgers
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How did Branch Rickey ask Jackie Robinson to behave upon entering MLB?
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calmly
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Why does Dave Zirin portray boxing as a sport that people only participate in because they have no other options?
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Boxing started out as a sport of slaves and was desegregated early. It is never the sport of choice. No sport chews up athletes and spits them out like boxing. Very few make it.
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What war did Muhammad Ali refuse to serve in?
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Vietnam
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What controversial organization was Muhammad Ali a member of?
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Nation of Islam
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Why did the full boycott of the 1968 Olympic games never happen
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In the fall of 1967, amateur Black athletes formed the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) to organize an African American boycott of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
Athletes didn't want to give it up for civil rights and they weren't sure if giving up their chances at the games would make any difference in the conditions at home. |
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What did Marvin Miller establish for MLB
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A baseball players union
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What happened to Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their demonstration on the medal stand at the Olympics
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They were striped of the medals and banned from the Olympics.
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How does Dave Zirin portray George Foreman in the book?
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As a kind person who cares for others.
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Who was Toni Smith?
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antiwar women's college hoopster Toni Smith
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What NFL team, with a racially insensitive name, was the last to integrate?
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The Washington Red Skins
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