The Los Angeles Rams were the first NFL team to sign African-American players. Many people know the role Jackie Robinson played in integrating Major League Baseball in 1947. But Kenny Washington and Woody Strode broke the pro football color line a year earlier, in 1946. San Francisco sportswriter Gretchen Atwood traces this history in her new book, "Lost Champions."
Lost Champions: The California Athletes Who Broke Pro Football's Color Line
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