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The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing

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The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, prohibited everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In
The Brown Bullet, Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, and in the end, tells how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, wining some of the biggest races of the day.


About the Author


Bill Poehler is an award-winning investigative journalist based in the northwest, where he has worked as a reporter for the Statesman Journal for twenty-one years. His work has appeared in the Oregonian, the Eugene Register-Guard and the Corvallis Gazette-Times; online at OPB.org and KGW.com; and in magazines including Slant Six News, Racing Wheels, National Speed Sport News, and Dirt Track Digest. He lives in Salem, Oregon.

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Autorius: Bill Poehler
Leidėjas: Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
Išleidimo metai: 2021
Knygos puslapių skaičius: 1
ISBN-13: 9781665201483
Formatas: 5.2 x 0 x 5.7 inches.
Kalba: Anglų

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