The Portrayal of Harlem Globetrotters' Owner Abe Saperstein: A Historical Investigation of Modern Perspectives

This Senior Thesis in History analyzes a number of newspaper articles from the 1950s and 1960s in order to investigate a noticeable historiographical narrative on former Harlem Globetrotters’ owner Abe Saperstein. Three historiographical accounts present the debated dichotomy of Abe’s character as a...

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Main Author: Richman, Peter
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2013
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/588
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1681&context=cmc_theses