The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory (Sport in the Global Society)

by Irvine Welsh (Foreword), Phil Vasili (Author), Tony Whelan (Introduction)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $67.51

  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.