Public will have an opportunity to listen to our conversation. A lot of important work over the last few weeks responding to the covid19 crisis. This follows in the virtual roundtable held last week, ices response at the detention facility. Taking time to participate in this roundtable, i think everyone in advance for what we have. I will turn it over to the subcommittee chair. Thank you. At the outset i want to provide a few guidelines that will help this roundtable goes smoothly. I ask that everyone use their microphones unless it is your turn to talk. This will minimize any interruptions or stray noise. I will have my video feed on the entire roundtable. If you prefer to participate in this roundtable or just audio or if you would like to be visible only when it is your time to speak you are welcome to turn off your camera at any time. I want to explain how the roundtable will work and make a few opening comments and chairman nadler will make the opening comments. We follow brief op
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
Inventing disaster the culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the johnstown flood. Copies will be for sale. Thrilled to be with you to hear her talk. I hope you will join me in a very warm welcome for cindy kerner. [applause] prof. Kierner in 2012, Superstorm Sandy destroyed many places i cared about. It was not in the ocean on a road on it. Stories about this storm really riveting. Especially the Human Interest stories about its victims, survivors, efforts to provide post Disaster Relief in the way in which the whole says situation became politicized. It happened so soon before president ial election. I also found it interesting what all the stories told us about the larger story worlds of new york and new jersey. In the United States generally. In 2012. , i noticedortant that the news followed a pattern familiar to me from katrina and other disasters. The quantitative information about what happened. How many people died, how much property was destroyed in the value of that
Think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in honor of the governor who had died earlier that year. The donor wanted to hear our ideas first about how we put those funds to use before they were transmitted. Naturally, i proposed that this money be applied to my mortgage. [laughter] he passed. The benefactor liked much more the idea that we use the money to convert one of the junior postdoctoral fellowship lines to one that would support an invited senior scholar. That would cost more and they are
I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labeled , this is the history of black sports. So i had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. It was a remarkable story. They played with the men. One of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play with the man said he had a file where women across the country were writing in to request tryouts. That stuck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, is there a lot of black girls history trying to play baseball, maybe theres is a Hidden History here. So that made me go out to find other stories in the book, from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, really looking at black women in sporting history in the 20th century. Let me talk about two names, oe is quite familiar