Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience - A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries

FAIN: LT-50056-08

Oak Park Public Library (Oak Park, IL 60301)
James Madigan (Project Director: April 2008 to present)

The 1,000-square-foot panel exhibition examines baseball as a reflection of race relations in the United States, asking how baseball has shaped, and been shaped by, national identity and culture. Photographs, broadsides, team rosters, scorecards, and other baseball memorabilia would tell the story of black participation in baseball, from the integrated amateur leagues of the nineteenth century and the creation of segregated Negro League in the Jim Crow era to Jackie Robinson's now-famous breaking of the color barrier in 1947.