Louis Moore, a historian of African American history and sports history at Grand Valley State University, explores one of the most glaring discrepancies in all of sports: While the NFL has long been racially integrated, quarterbacking was the exclusive domain of white players for many years. Moore will share with Chicago Humanities how his new book, The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans and the Making of the Black Quarterback, tells the story of two pioneering Black quarterbacks—one who became the first to win a Super Bowl and one who couldn’t make it in the racist world of the NFL—and how they changed the face of America’s game for generations to come.

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