A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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American History Courses Integration Courses Great Depression Courses Segregation Courses

Course Description

Overview

<p>Witness the triumphant story of Black baseball—a reflection of segregation and integration in American history.</p>

Syllabus

By This Professor
01: Emancipation and the American Pastime
02: Drawing the Color Line
03: Black Ball Goes Pro
04: Rube Foster: A Baseball Lifer
05: The Negro National League
06: The Eastern Colored League
07: The Troubled Twenties
08: Making a Way out of No Way
09: The East-West Classic
10: Surviving the Great Depression
11: The Negro American League
12: Integration and the Negro Leagues

Taught by

Louis Moore

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