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1954 Norfolk Tars, Team and Stadium Integrated Important Photo of Baseball Social Change
Size: 8x10. Vintage 1.
By 1953, many things in baseball had changed but others were still woefully stuck in the past. As expected, the south lagged behind in integration both on the field and in the stands, but things were starting to change. Social pressure from Civil Rights organizations started the ball rolling and boycott's led to both black players being allowed on the Norfolk Tars baseball team, and the complete desegregation of the seating in the stands! Offered here is a rare image of the moment things changed as the six new black players on the Tars roster were pictured in uniform for the first time with their manager Skeeter Scalzi and posing at the new integrated stadium! Entire articles and websites are devoted to this team and the social change they ushered into Virginia and as such, it is an important piece of baseball history! There is a nice article written about the team and it's impact on the Civil Rights Movement here www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/norfolk-desegregates-base...
#tdih "Don't mourn, organize!" said Joe Hill, labor organizer, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Executed on Nov. 19, 1915. Learn about Joe Hill and find a link to the lesson, "The Singing Strike and the Rebel Students: Learning from the Industrial Workers of the World," at ZinnEdProject.org. Image: Carlos Cortez, linocut, 1979.
#tdih On November 10, 1898, a white supremacist massacre left 30 to 100 African Americans dead in Wilmington, NC and the elected government was deposed in a coup d’etat. #TeachReconstruction Read: zinnedproject.org/2014/11/wilmington-massacre-2/
1926 Aug 6 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
2003 08.27 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant
Screenshot from Hope McMath's talk, "Art in Action: How Creativity Empowers Democracy." This Jacksonville mural depicts scenes from Ax Handle Saturday, a violent August 27, 1960 attack in response to peaceful lunch counter demonstrations organized by the Jacksonville Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ax-handle-saturday-jackso...
August 5th, 1884 :: The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1963 08.28 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.