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The Brown Bullet

by Bill Poehler
David Sadzin
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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.
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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781541413542
  • File size: 269594 KB
  • Release date: May 5, 2020
  • Duration: 09:21:39

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781541413542
  • File size: 269620 KB
  • Release date: May 5, 2020
  • Duration: 09:24:39
  • Number of parts: 9

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Biography & Autobiography Sociology Sports & Recreations Nonfiction

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English

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.
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Sociology Sports & Recreations Nonfiction