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
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O 2 emissions to ship repairs to the liver for a message to the climate so. I burned off its good to have you with us we begin tonight with the nato at 7 the leaders of nato members are meeting in london and theyre trying to paper over the cracks amid obvious divisions in the military a lot is evening there at Buckingham Palace for a reception hosted by the queen to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of nato it follows a very public spat between french president emanuel and u. S. President donald trump when the 2 leaders set down earlier today it was hard to predict how that meeting would go take a look. Would you like some nice isis fighters. Yes ok. You can take everyone you want. Not quite cordial combative tone pervaded the News Conference with u. S. President donald trump and his french counterpart emanuel mark hong at the nato meeting in london on tuesday trump sharply rebuked mccraw for saying in an interview with the magazine the economist last month that quote what we a
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