Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team by Leonard T. Miller,Kenneth L. Shropshire,Andrew Simon

By Leonard T. Miller,Kenneth L. Shropshire,Andrew Simon

beginning a NASCAR staff is difficult paintings. beginning a NASCAR workforce as an African American is even more durable. those are only a number of the classes discovered by means of Leonard T. Miller in the course of his decade and a half working an vehicle racing software. Fueled through greater than the will to win, Miller made it his aim to create possibilities for black drivers within the enormously white, Southern global of NASCAR. Racing whereas Black chronicles the travails of promoting advertising plans to skeptics and scraping by way of at the thinnest of budgets, in addition to the triumphs of rushing to victory and altering the way in which racing fanatics view pores and skin colour. along with his father—former drag racer and longtime group proprietor Leonard W. Miller—along for the trip, Miller trips from the quick tracks of the Carolinas to the boardrooms of the "Big 3" automakers to determine that his hardest race might be profitable over the human race.

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