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Author Respress-Churchwell, Gloria, author.

Title Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history / Gloria Respress-Churchwell ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.

Publication Info. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2019]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1952631~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Biography  J BIO PIERCE    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Biography  J BIO PIERCE    AVAILABLE
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Description 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Summary Recounts the college football career of Chester M. Pierce, who played for Harvard University in a time when African Americans did not play on Southern university teams, and details the team's efforts to combat racism during a 1947 game in Virginia.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Pierce, Chester M. -- Juvenile literature.
Football players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
College sports -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
College sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Racism in sports -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
College sports -- History -- Juvenile literature.
College sports -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature.
Racism in sports -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Discrimination in sports -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Harvard University -- Football -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), illustrator.
ISBN 9781580898355 (reinforced for library use)
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