Name: The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing
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Author: Poehler, Bill
ISBN: 9781641602297

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The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing

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Physical Book

Author

Bill Poehler

Publisher

Lawrence Hill Books

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 16.0 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9781641602297

Synopsis "The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing"

The powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. But Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, drove into the center of "outlaw" auto racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In The Brown Bullet, journalist Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, showing ultimately 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.

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