| Series |
Black lives
Black lives (Yale University Press) UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
Reputable and entitled to credit -- He had famous flyers to ride then -- I ride to win -- The wrong this day done -- Afterlives. |
| Abstract |
"Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first African American superstar athletes--and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences."--Dust jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-167) and index. |
| Biographical note | Katherine C. Mooney is James P. Jones Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. She is the author of Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack. She lives in Tallahassee, FL. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Mooney, Katherine Carmines. Isaac Murphy. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023 9780300271676 |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2022944101 |
| ISBN | 9780300254426 (hardcover alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300254423 (hardcover alk. paper) |
