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For Gold and Glory: Charlie Wiggins and the African-American Racing Car Circuit

For Gold and Glory: Charlie Wiggins and the African-American Racing Car Circuit

Gould, Todd

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAthletesMotor Sports

ISBN10: 0253219620
ISBN13: 9780253219626
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Oct 1 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The companion book to the PBS television special of the same name, For Gold and Glory retraces the little-known history of the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes. This highly celebrated auto-racing event for African Americans was held in Indiana and throughout the Midwest during the racial turbulence of the 1920s and 1930s, when the Ku Klux Klan cast a shadow over the social and political landscape of the state and region. The story is told through the eyes and emotions of Indianapolis auto mechanic Charlie Wiggins. The greatest African American driver of the era, Wiggins was known as the Negro Speed King.

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