Thursday night lights : the story of black high school football in Texas /

At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the...

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Main Author: Hurd, Michael, 1949- (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 47.
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