The Brown Bullet
Rajo Jack’s Drive to Integrate Auto Racing
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The Brown Bullet
Narrated by:
David Sadzin
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Narrated by:
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David Sadzin
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Bill Poehler
About this listen
The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, prohibited everyone who wasn't a White male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a Black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of White drivers. In The Brown Bullet, Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, and in the end, tells how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a Black man could compete with some of the greatest White drivers of his era, winning some of the biggest races of the day.
©2020 Bill Poehler (P)2020 Tantor
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