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Taliaferro: Breaking Barriers from the NFL Draft to the Ivory Tower
Taliaferro Breaking Barriers from the NFL Draft to the Ivory Tower
Author: Dawn Knight
George Taliaferro was a star player on Indiana University's first great football team of 1945 -- two years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's racial barrier. Four years later, he became the first African American drafted by the NFL when the Chicago Bears expressed their interest in him. Rather than play for his childhood dream team, Taliafe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780253222244
ISBN-10: 0253222249
Publication Date: 3/3/2010
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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