Failing to africa and coming every african flight. Dragging them across the atlantic to work in the battlefields. In particular and of course in the caribbean in the middle at the 18th century when the thought was more valuable. Of course, the story shifted. The hope in conjunction with the caribbean because the africans outnumber the europeans at a rate 10 to one or 22 when the caribbeans create fertile grounds for the rise of slave revolts, which is not only jeopardizing the investments, but a lot of slave owners and their families. This of course released a retrenchment on the mainland, where the ratio is a much more favorable to slavery but that does not necessarily save because in 1739 in seven to 12 you have the results of the famed manhattan. Recently spearheaded by angolan who not only many of them speech portuguese, but many of them were actually roman catholic. They were trying to get to spanish florida at that time controlled by same and there is a direct collaboration betwe
Would hear about contributions to the baseball world, including future hall of fame players and several innovations of the sport like the use of lights for night games. D eisenhower president ial library and museum hosted this hourlong event. I want to say good afternoon. Long event. First i want to say good afternoon, and i want to thank some people, of course, tim for giving me this opportunity to come down and speak with you today. Im really excited about it and samantha who handled a lot of the publicity for the event she did just a wonderful job and without people like that, also there was a local Radio Station that did a great interview, and between newspaper, radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit and so i want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you a little bit about why im here. The kansas city monarchs was a Negro League Baseball team and most of you have heard of them. Maybe you heard of Jackie R
Especially over the same period of time. Number one. Number two, truman was famous for being a walker. Every day he took his constitutional. Referring to the speed of the pedestrians in the competitive races, i think, and its hard to tell, we have no photographs much less moving pictures. Its a shame. Still the age of line drawings and engravings. The way people described westins walk sounds similar to what race walking is today. They said he had a wobbly walk, that he moved his hips. He swung his hips. I have a feeling that he walked fast. Much like modern race walkers do. As far as truman, you mentioned harry truman. He walked, i forget what it was. What was his old military pace of 60 steps a second or 60 steps a minute or something . He was famous for his walks. Liked to walk around washington. There is a good story where the secret service hated it. The secret service had been protecting fdr, you know, for 12 years and really didnt have to worry about fdr going on long walks. So t
President ial library and museum hosted this event. First, i want to say good afternoon and thank some people. Of course tim for letting me come and speak to you today. And of course samantha, who handled a lot of the publicity for the event. She did just a wonderful job. There was also a local Radio Station who did a great interview and between newspaper and radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit. I want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you why we are here. The kansas city monarchs were a Negro League Baseball team. Perhaps most of you have heard of them. Some of the great players maybe you heard of Jackie Robinson or Satchel Paige. Organized 1920, 1920 four and one the first world championship. That was 90 years ago. Way torying to figure a honor these brave men who purely play for the love of the game because they did not make great salaries back then. I decided i was going to visit 90 cities to commem
Baseball and rhethe rethinking the Civil Rights Movement. Let me start out with a confession to you. As long as ive been teaching the Civil Rights Movement, it didnt make sense to me. V a im a baby boomer. I was born at the end of world war ii. I came of age if the 1950s and 1960s, so why does a historian present something current . My mind changed in 2001. Let me tell you what happened in 2001. I had the great privilege to serve as moderator for a session on pastime, baseball is history at the organization for american historians. And the session was focusing on judec tyjeels new book. We had a great panel with stanley cutler, james marin from Princeton University and jewels augusty from San Francisco state, and then our surprise anchorperson, sharon robbins, head and founder of jackies 9 and the daughter of Jackie Robinson. And we had a great session. It was well attended. At the end of the session, i had the chance to chat with Sharon Robinson. And we were both concerned about a fa