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
Thanks for joining us on American History tv. Professor davis thanks for having me. Steve let me begin with your book, expected to be published in about a year. What have you learned so far . Professor davis oh, 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, quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labeled this is the history of black women in sports. So i kind of had to piece it together. I would say 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 against the men said he had something called the gal file, where women across the country and young girls too were writing in to request tryouts. That kind of stuck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, if there were a
Association meeting. Amira rose davis is a professed or professor of history at Penn State College in pennsylvania and is working on a book about the lives and labors of women athletes in the age of jim crow. Thanks for joining us on American History tv. Thanks for having me. Let me begin with your book, 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. There wasnt any archive labeled history of black women in sports. By the time i pieced it together, i would say i got started by finding three women who played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. It was a remarkable story. They played with the man. One things that stuck out about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play against the men said he had something called the gal file, where women and young girls were writing in to request tryouts.
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He is going to the cdc. Well talk about the tornado response in a moment. The big Economic News out of the white house though is the shift in approach when it comes to the virus. Tell us about that. Indeed. It came from the top economic advisor. Every month he does these roundrobin interviews with all the financial networks. Kudlow wanted it to be absolutely Crystal Clear with anyone who would listen to him that right now the Trump Administration is considering some economic measures in response to the coronavirus. This is a bit of a 180 especially here. Kudlow also made it clear this wouldnt be some sort of big money dump to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. We are not looking at big expensive macro cash rebates, helicopter money from the sky that never works. We want to have this targeted in a timely fashion for those areas that have been hit the worst. You hear him talking about targeted and timely. Ive heard him use that phrase at least a dozen times. He said this is sti