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In the mid 1880s white americans rejects the short-lived experiment of racially integrated professional baseball idea.
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Created first sports section in newspaper; then the other leading New York dailies followed (the Times, the Herald, the Journal)
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A Phenomenon event for all women.
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To prevents Blacks from joining the league, White Southern American withdrew from the leegue. 4 years later, The Whites Only Policy Was Created.
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Less than 1% of all college football players were African American in the North. Most of those Atheletes competed in Track and Field
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The ideal image of a woman athelete in the early years.
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Ruled Seperate but Equal.
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Only African American to break racial barrier. Taylor won three straight bycling championships 98,99,and 00.
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Jack Johnson First Black Champion, lost to a white man. Never Gained a rematch since.
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The ideal image of a woman, was to have short hair, smokes and drank in public and mingled with everyman possible.
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The ideal man for the 1920s - 1930s was to look like a body builder.
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A popular bathing suit in the 1920s.
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The NFL, finally had African Americans in the NFL
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Great Depression causes sports to lose its popularity, and causing bowling alleys and such to shut down. Sports Entertainment become as known as the "low" spot.
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The New York Times devoted the entire first 13 pages of the fight in there newspaper.
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10 years later after allwoing blacks into the league. They banned all black from playing and joinging the leauge.
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Joe Louis, won the Heavyweight Championship and first person to fight all races since Jack Johnson.
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Racially intergration returned in 1946. When Robinson joined the montreal farm for the Brookyln Dodgers
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Sports in American starts to change for the better.
