Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

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Overview

Starting a NASCAR team is hard work. Starting a NASCAR team as an African American is even harder. These are just a few of the lessons learned by Leonard T. Miller during his decade and a half of running an auto racing program. Fueled by more than the desire to win, Miller made it his goal to create opportunities for black drivers in the vastly white, Southern world of NASCAR. Racing While Black chronicles the travails of selling marketing plans to skeptics and scraping by on the thinnest of budgets, as well as the triumphs of speeding to victory and changing the way racing fans view skin color. With his father—former drag racer and longtime team owner Leonard W. Miller—along for the ride, Miller journeys from the short tracks of the Carolinas to the boardrooms of the "Big Three" automakers to find out that his toughest race may be winning over the human race.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583229385
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 01/04/2011
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

LEONARD T. MILLER is a second-generation African-American auto racing team owner, the president of Miller Racing Group, Inc, and a twenty-one-year veteran commercial airline pilot. His dad, Leonard W. Miller, entered a team in the 1972 Indianapolis 500 and is in the Black Athletes Hall of Fame.
ANDREW SIMON is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. For over a decade he has covered music, sports, and pop culture for Rolling Stone Press, VIBE, Complex, and ESPN Magazine.

Table of Contents

Introduction Dave Zirin 1

Foreword Kenneth L. Shropshire 7

Acknowledgments 13

1 Like Father 15

2 Finding Jackie 27

3 Concord 43

4 Starting Our Engine 63

5 "Do all these places accept MasterCard?" 81

6 Flip the Switches 95

7 Almost Sponsored 107

8 Chasing the Check 133

9 "Wendell! Wendell! Wendell!" 153

10 Shot Callers 177

11 A White Driver? 195

12 A New Hope 225

13 The Beginning of the End 263

14 Champions 297

A Brief History of Black Achievements in Motorsports 308

Index 312

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