Game of Privilege An African American History of Golf

• Main Author: Demas, Lane (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2017
• Subjects: History of sport; Black & Asian studies; Sociology: sport & leisure; Golf history; African American history; black golfers; sport history; race and sport; Professional Golfers Association (PGA) history; PGA Tour history; Tiger Woods; Charlie Sifford; Ted Rhodes; Lee Elder; Joe Louis; United Golfers Association (UGA); Civil Rights Movement; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Holmes v. Atlanta; U.S. Open; United States Golf Association (USGA); Masters Tournament; Jackie Robinson; Calvin Peete; Thurgood Marshall; Constance Baker Motley; Augusta National Golf Club; Maggie Hathaway; Bill Spiller; George Franklin Grant; Greensboro Six; Gary Player; Jack Nicklaus; Arnold Palmer; Bobby Jones; black caddies; Alfred "Tup" Holmes; Althea Gibson; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC
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Summary

This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA)--a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975. Lane Demas charts how African Americans nationwide organized social campaigns, filed lawsuits, and went to jail in order to desegregate courses; he also provides dramatic stories of golfers who boldly confronted wider segregation more broadly in their local communities. As national civil rights organizations debated golf's symbolism and whether or not to pursue the game's integration, black players and caddies took matters into their own hands and helped shape its subculture, while UGA participants forged one of the most durable black sporting organizations in American history as they fought to join the white Professional Golfers' Association (PGA). From George F. Grant's invention of the golf tee in 1899 to the dominance of superstar Tiger Woods in the 1990s, this revelatory and comprehensive work challenges stereotypes and indeed the fundamental story of race and golf in American culture.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (384 p.)

ISBN

9781469634319_Buckley
9798890850713
9781469669281
9781469634227
9781469634241

Access

Open Access