The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier Cover:Hardcover Welcome to Queens

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including Louisa and Anna

and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous

believing that if he could draw attention to the problem then perhaps it would be addressed through social programs or government intervention

BIG DREAMS series introduces little dreamers to the lives of these leaders and trailblazers who stepped up and changed the world

The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier Cover:Hardcover Welcome to QueensThe unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946. THE FORGOTTEN FIRST chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come. More than a year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball,