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Phil Vasili
The First Black Footballer
Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

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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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Format PDF ● Pages 272 ● ISBN 9781136322471 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2593272 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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