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
Moment to please silence your cell phones so that we do not disrupt this fascinating talk. And while youre doing that, i would love to share with you an installation that i recently curated on our north wall entitled antisuffrage. Using materials from the special collections, we take a look at how the Suffrage Movement contributed to redesigning womens roles and responsibilities in society from varied perspectives as they vied for equality. It also presents the struggle to secure Voting Rights for women and people of color in the past and today. Please take a look after the talk. I would love to hear your talks and feedback. And if you have any questions, ill definitely be here to answer them. I should also mention that we have a large expedition in our calderwood gallery across the way. Required reading, reimagining a colonial library. That particular exhibition showcases rarely seen historic books that are treasures of 17th century boston. Community partners and each of us, including
Embrace Boston will host the second annual Embrace Ideas Festival, June 14-16, 2023, in the three days leading up to the Juneteenth holiday weekend. The.
Sir Zanele Muholi has been documenting queer and trans people in South Africa for decades with the aim of celebrating life, joy and the beauty of the community. An exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston that focuses on work by Muholi is being shown across the country and world this spring. Jared Bowen of GBH Boston reports for our arts and culture series, "CANVAS."