Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the way of things -- Part one: vanguard -- An uneasy fit / Billy Jones and Pete Johnson, University of Maryland -- Forms of hell / Perry Wallace, Vanderbilt University -- Between worlds / C. B. Claiborne, Duke University -- Fall from grace / Henry Harris Jr., Auburn University -- The loneliest number / Charles Scott, University of North Carolina -- Door jamb / Wendell Hudson, University of Alabama -- Part two: changing of the guard -- Pipe dream / Norwood Todmann, Wake Forest University -- Prisoner of choice / Tom Payne Jr., University of Kentucky -- Friendly bounce / Al Heartley, North Carolina State University -- Penn Pall / Ronnie Hogue, University of Georgia -- Forbidden territory / Craig Mobley, Clemson University, and Casey Manning, University of South Carolina -- All in the family / Collis Temple Jr., Louisiana State University -- Shooting the hoop / Coolidge Ball, University of Mississippi -- Part three: rear guard -- Later gators / Malcolm Meeks and Steve Williams, University of Florida -- Far from home / Al Drummond, University of Virginia -- Actions speak / Wilbert Cherry and Larry Robinson, University of Tennessee -- Sneakers / Larry Fry and Jerry Jenkins, Mississippi State University -- Appendix
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"Now thoroughly revised and updated, Across the Line recounts the experiences of the pioneering African-American basketball players at 18 colleges in the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences, the South's most prominent, historically white intercollegiate leagues"-- Provided by publisher.
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