Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats : How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression. by Surdam, David G.

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The roles of popular entertainment dance during the Great Depression by Allen, Melissa Spencer

The march of spare time : the problem and promise of leisure in the Great Depression / by Currell, Susan

The march of spare time : the problem and promise of leisure in the Great Depression / by Currell, Susan

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Democratic Sports : Men's and Women's College Athletics during the Great Depression / by Austin, Brad

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No money, no beer, no pennants : the Cleveland Indians and baseball in the great depression / by Longert, Scott

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Global denim /

Table of Contents: “…The making of an American icon: the transformation of blue jeans during the Great Depression /…”

Sport in America : from colonial leisure to celebrity figures and globalization /

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First taste of freedom : a cultural history of bicycle marketing in the United States / by Turpin, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Conceptions of bicycles -- Cycling's rise and American manhood -- Automobiles and a world at war -- Cooperation and confusion -- The child consumer -- The postwar slump -- The safety of cycling -- Surviving the Great Depression -- Bicycles in the age of affluence -- High-risers and multi-geared redeemers -- Consumers as derailleurs.…”

First taste of freedom : a cultural history of bicycle marketing in the United States / by Turpin, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Conceptions of bicycles -- Cycling's rise and American manhood -- Automobiles and a world at war -- Cooperation and confusion -- The child consumer -- The postwar slump -- The safety of cycling -- Surviving the Great Depression -- Bicycles in the age of affluence -- High-risers and multi-geared redeemers -- Consumers as derailleurs.…”
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"If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige / by Spivey, Donald

Table of Contents: “…Without a satchel -- On the mount -- "If you were only white" --Turning the Paige -- Blackballing the Great Depression -- How the West was won -- Baseball diplomacy -- The fugitive -- Lazarus -- Double V -- Integration -- Center stage in the white arena -- Ninth inning -- Extra innings.…”
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"If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige / by Spivey, Donald

Table of Contents: “…Warm-ups: a prelude -- Without a Satchel -- On the mount -- "If you were only white" -- Turning the Paige -- Blackballing the Great Depression -- How the West was won -- Baseball diplomacy -- The fugitive -- Lazarus -- Double V -- Integration -- Center stage in the white arena -- Ninth inning -- Extra innings.…”
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Football at historically black colleges and universities in Texas / by Fink, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The early years -- The "New Negro" and community pride -- The Great Depression and cultural power -- War and peace -- Cultural prominence and decline -- Civil rights and black power -- Loss of independence -- Life goes on -- Appendix A. …”
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Max Baer and Barney Ross : Jewish heroes of boxing / by Sussman, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Prototypes; The Great Depression, Boxing, and Mike Jacobs; Tough Kid; Fists of Fury; Hero and Drug Addict; From Ranch Hand to Powerful Right Hand; Jew versus Nazi; The Man in the Movies; After the Last Bell; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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Getting what we need ourselves : how food has shaped African American life / by Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Culinary exchanges and origins during the Transatlantic slave trade -- Africanisms and adaptation during the era of slavery -- Foodways, resiliency, and white supremacy after the Civil War -- The quest to cook and eat with dignity during the Jim Crow era -- The search for a common table during the Great Depression and World War II -- Food as politics during the black freedom struggle.…”
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American appetites : a documentary reader /

Table of Contents: “…From Prohibition to the Great Depression --…”
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Creating the Big Easy : New Orleans and the emergence of modern tourism, 1918-1945 / by Stanonis, Anthony J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the city of myths -- A city of destiny : New Orleans businessmen and modern tourism -- New era New Orleans : the Great Depression, taxation, and Robert Maestri -- A new Babylon : vice and gender in New Orleans -- French town : the reconstruction of the Vieux Carr⥠-- A city that care forgot : the reinvention of New Orleans Mardi Gras -- Old New Orleans : race and tourism -- Epilogue : boomtown.…”

Creating the Big Easy : New Orleans and the emergence of modern tourism, 1918-1945 / by Stanonis, Anthony J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the city of myths -- A city of destiny : New Orleans businessmen and modern tourism -- New era New Orleans : the Great Depression, taxation, and Robert Maestri -- A new Babylon : vice and gender in New Orleans -- French town : the reconstruction of the Vieux Carré -- A city that care forgot : the reinvention of New Orleans Mardi Gras -- Old New Orleans : race and tourism -- Epilogue : boomtown.…”
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They played for the love of the game : untold stories of Black baseball in Minnesota / by White, Frank M. (Sports Administrator)

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings: Minnesota Black baseball in the nineteenth century -- The early twentieth century: Black baseball: Gophers and Keystones -- The roaring twenties: creating their own league -- The 1930s: promises, challenges, and the Great Depression -- The 1940s: the end of the color barrier in organized baseball--but barriers still exist -- The 1950s: the decline of Black baseball and the rise of fast-pitch softball -- The 1960s: the end of an era -- Extra innings -- Appendix: They passed her along the way: African American and Latino players on Minnesota's minor league clubs…”
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Every nation has its dish : black bodies and black food in twentieth-century America / by Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Washington's multifaceted program for food reform at the Tuskegee Institute -- W.E.B. du Bois, respectable child-rearing, and the representative black body -- Regionalism, social class, and elite perceptions of working-class foodways during the era of the great migration -- World War I, the Great Depression, and the changing symbolic value of black food traditions -- The civil rights movement and the ascendency of the idea of a racial style of eating -- Culinary nationalism beyond soul food.…”
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