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

The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton, 1865-1930 - An Absence of Memory
  • ISBN: 9780714644592
  • Author: Phil Vasili; Tony Whelan; Irvine Welsh
    Format: Paperback
    Publication Date: 30 Sep 1997
Price: £48.99

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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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