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The First Black Footballer

Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory
By:Phil Vasili
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780714644592
eText ISBN:9781136322549
Edition:1
Copyright:1998
Format:Reflowable

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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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