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SPORTDiscus
This database is not fulltext but it is focused on sports and links to fulltext.
ProQuest Statistical Insight
Contains the fulltext of Statistical Abstract of the United States as well as other government statistical sources.

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers this topic from a sociological point of view.
Points of View Reference Source This link opens in a new window
Contains biographical profiles of African American athletes as well as articles on the topic.
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Over 1500 professional and scholarly journals in education.
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News articles

Integrating the Gridiron: Black civil rights and American college football by Lane Demas
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks GV 959.5 .D46 2010
ISBN: 9780813547411
Publication Date: 2010-04-15

Search SOUTHcat, ebrary, ACLS Humanities ebooks, and EBSCO eBook Collection for more books on African Americans in sports. These are books the Marx Library owns that could be useful.

The Strange Career of the Black Athlete by Russell T. Wigginton; Benjamin L. Hooks (Foreword by)
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks GV 583 .W547 2006
ISBN: 0275982238
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Outside the Lines: African Americans and the integration of the National Football League by Charles K. Ross
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks GV 955.5 .N35 R67 1999
ISBN: 9780814774953
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
African-American Sports Greats by David L. Porter (Editor)
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference GV 697 .A1 F37 1995
ISBN: 9780313289873
Publication Date: 1995-10-30
Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture by George Eisen; David K. Wiggins
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks GV 709.5 .E84 1994
ISBN: 9780313288142
Publication Date: 1994-08-30
Covers multiple ethnicities but several chapters deal with African Americans.
A Hard Road to Glory by Arthur R. Ashe
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference GV 583 .A74 1993
ISBN: 9781567430066
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
This is a three volume set. Volume 1 covers 1619-1918; volume 2 covers 1919-1945; volume 3 deals with Since 1946. There is also a VHS movie in the Instructional Media Center, GV 697 .A1 H37 1988

Famous Black Athletes
Biographical profiles
African-Americans in Sports
Timeline of historic achievements
Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson
From the Library of Congress American Memory page
Negro League History 101
History of Negro League Baseball
SportsMakers
Includes categories such as coaches and sports educators.
The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936 -- African American Athletes.
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum