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Author Poehler, Bill, 1977- author.

Title The Brown Bullet : Rajo Jack's drive to integrate auto racing / Bill Poehler
Published Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2020]

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Contents Introduction: The unlikely hero -- Longing for the road -- Becoming Rajo Jack -- Taking a step back to move forward -- The outlaw emerges -- The rise to prominence -- The folly of Negro League midget racing -- From obscurity to national champion -- Independence and reaching a new height -- Lucky charms fail to deliver -- The super-sub wins the other 500 -- The big crash and road to obscurity -- Racing on the fringes -- Rising from the ashes -- The new Indy 500 dream -- Hawaiian interlude -- A new dream -- Epilogue : Rajo Jack as a work of art -- Rajo Jack's wins
Summary "The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. Though Rajo Jack spent his whole life striving to reach the pinnacle of the sport, the Indianapolis 500, the greatest race in the world wouldn't have him. In The Brown Bullet, Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, and, in the end, tells how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, winning some of the biggest races of the day"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2021)
Subject Rajo Jack, 1905-1956
African American automobile racing drivers -- Biography
Automobile racing drivers -- United States -- Biography
Automobile racing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Racism in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African American automobile racing drivers
Automobile racing
Automobile racing drivers
Discrimination in sports
Racism in sports
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019056070
ISBN 9781641602327
1641602325
9781641602303
1641602309
9781641602310
1641602317