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Monday February 1, 2010
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Sunday February 28, 2010
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Chip Cooper
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Contact: 444-7888
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Location: Hoover Library, Plaza Gallery
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Monday February 1, 2010
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Wednesday March 31, 2010
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Toby Klein
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Contact: 444-7888
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Location: Hoover Library, Friends Gallery
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Thursday April 1, 2010
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Friday April 30, 2010
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Toby Klein
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Contact: 444-7888
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Location: Hoover Library, Plaza Gallery
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Saturday May 1, 2010
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Friday June 11, 2010
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Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience
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Contact: Sandi Lee 205-226-3742 slee@bham.lib.al.us
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The story of African Americans in baseball is a remarkable and fascinating slice of American history. It parallels the failures of the greater American society in solving the racial problems resulting from slavery, the Civil War, and the confusion of Reconstruction. Baseball was played on Southern plantations as far back as the 1850s, and a quote from the New York Clipper newspaper in 1869 tells of a game between the leading black and white baseball teams in Philadelphia. Although early baseball was segregated for the most part, there are many examples of blacks and whites playing the game together. However, racial prejudice escalated in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and baseball reflected this development in the larger society. The captain of the leading black team in Philadelphia was murdered in riots that occurred on the first day black men were legally allowed to vote in October 1871. Black players on the rare integrated teams, such as the Toledo Blue Stockings, were sometimes threatened by people in the stands and by players on opposing teams. When the National League was founded in 1883, blacks were shut out, and the black players on the Toledo team in the mid-1880s were the last to play on an integrated team until Jackie Robinson in 1947. This early baseball history will be both a revelation and a surprise to most viewers of the exhibition, and it adds a fascinating dimension to late nineteenth-century U.S. history.
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Location: BPL-Central Library 1st Floor Gallery
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