Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins

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A classic NFL/civil rights story--the showdown between the Washington Redskins and the Kennedy White House. In the 1960s, America hummed with tension as professional football leagues and civil rights advocates struggled to level their respective playing fields. For the Washington Redskins--the last NFL team to integrate and the only one to have been forced to do so by presidential order--tensions ran even higher. In Showdown, sports historian Thomas Smith captures a striking moment, one that held sweeping implications not only for one team's racist policy but also for a sharply segregated city and--nationally--for the implementation of New Frontier-era integration efforts. It's a story about a country newly shaped by post-World War II ideas about America's image abroad, cold-war consciousness over political power grabs, and, of course, the civil rights movement.