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Library Resources for Assignment #3: Activist Athletes
Reference Works (several of which would work particularly well for historical activists/athletes):
- A to Z of American Women in Sports (c. 2002)
- African American Athletes (c. 2003)
- Biography Reference Bank (library database, good starting point for many athletes)
- Celebrating Women Coaches: A Biographical Dictionary (c. 2000)
- Great Athletes of the Twenty-First Century (c. 2018) - Gitenstein Library E-BOOK
- Latino and African American Athletes Today: A Biographical Dictionary (c. 2004)
- The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures (c. 2002)
- A Supplementary Dictionary of Sports Personalities (c. 2013) - Gitenstein Library E-BOOK
Secondary Books (tiny selection to suggest what's available in the library):
- Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL (c. 2006)
- Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers (c. 2017)
- Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports (c. 2011) - Gitenstein Library E-BOOK
- Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and the Female Athlete (c. 2013)
- Silent Gesture: Autobiography of Tommie Smith (c. 2007)
- We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality (c. 2017)