The First Black Footballer : Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory, Hardback Book

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

Part of the Sport in the Global Society series

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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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