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The rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebrities

The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities

First published in 1978, Claude Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. Oubre recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the US government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them.

Katherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America's first mass spectator sport. Her central characters are not the elite white owners of slaves and thoroughbreds but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run--until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.