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The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory
Author(s): Phil Vasili (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0714649031
- ISBN-13: 9780714649030
Book Description
Arthur Wharton was the world’s first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty.
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Phil Vasili
