Of black women athletes in the age of jim crow. Thanks for joining us on American History. Thanks for having me. Let me begin with your book expected to be published in about a year. What have you learned so far . Oh, so many things. I started the project asking is there a long history of black women in sports and i found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labelled this is a history of black women in sports. So i kind of had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. And it was a remarkable story. They played with the men. And one of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in the black women to play against the men said he had something called a gal file. Where women across the country and young girls too were writing in to request tryouts and that struck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, hm, if there is a lot of black g
Women in sports including women who played baseball in the negro leaks in the 1950s and women who participated in olympic sports. This interview was recorded at the historical meeting. Let me begin with yearbook expected to be published in about a year. What have you learned so far . So many things. I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find. It was not any archive labeled this is a history of black women in sports. I would say i got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro s. Gues in 1950 when the one of the things that stuck out to me as the owner who brought in these women to play against the men as he had something called the gal file. That kind of stuck in my head as a young graduate student. If there is a lie of black women in the mid century trying to book time to play baseball, then that set me out on a number of other stories i have from track to tennis and really looking
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Count down 100 days to the winter Olympic Games today, tuesday, october 29th, 2013. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. Along side al, im thinking back to a year ago today, and you were talking about those competing european models and the United States model. The european model won out, and people up and down the east coast lost. Thats right. We were talking about it almost a week ahead of time, and the worst happened. Of course, it could have been a lot worse. Were going to look at the lessons that have been learned in one year. Guys. All right, al. Thank you very much. Meantime, we want to turn to todays top story. The renewed uproar over the nsas spying program, but the man in charge has his feet held to the fire later today. Nbcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell i
Together. We were looking at the film, not over your whole career, over the last year, do you know home films you did . Three. Five. You did five, including runner, runner with ben affleck and justin timberlake. Are you guys pals . We are home boys. We are home boys. You are . Yeah. Yeah. We hang out. Whats it like working with guys like that . Were not really friends. Its cool. They were really nice guys. We shot the movie in puerto rico. So what can go wrong in puerto rico. A lota mafungo. What is that . Dont get it wet. Dont worry about that. Go to puerto rico and get some mafungo. You are in captain america. You, my friend, are falcon. Yes. Okay. Now, its got to be a little weird. Youre a superhero. Youve got to look the part ooh was that you . Watch it, watch it brothers, be blind, yes brothers be blind, yes [ laughter ] now, look, i can feel by your bicep youre in good shape. What kind of shape did you have to get into for that role . Chris evans is built like a greek statue. So