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In post-World War II America, when professional football owners scheduled exhibition games in the South and later placed franchises, they simply overlooked Jim Crow conditions endured by African American players.
To Live and Play in Dixie is an oral history from the players themselves on how they battled discrimination while playing and living in the still-segregated South.
About the author
Robert D. Jacobus is a former Texas public school teacher and coach who holds an MA in History from the University of Houston. He has taught history at Houston Community College, Lone Star College, Wharton County Junior College, and is currently an adjunct history professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has been researching the story of black pro footballers in the Jim Crow South for more than three years. The author has extensive media experience with television, radio, newspaper, and magazine interviews and hosts a website that is regularly updated to help with the promotion of his writing. He and his wife live in Village Mills, Texas.
