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White American Rejects Intergrates Professional Baseball
In the mid 1880s white americans rejects the short-lived experiment of racially integrated professional baseball idea. -
1887 Joseph Pulitzer's New York World
Created first sports section in newspaper; then the other leading New York dailies followed (the Times, the Herald, the Journal) -
Bicycling Woman
A Phenomenon event for all women. -
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The League of American Wheelman
To prevents Blacks from joining the league, White Southern American withdrew from the leegue. 4 years later, The Whites Only Policy Was Created. -
Less Than 1%
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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Gibson Girl
The ideal image of a woman athelete in the early years. -
Plessy vs, Fergurson
Ruled Seperate but Equal. -
Marshall W. "Major" Taylor
Only African American to break racial barrier. Taylor won three straight bycling championships 98,99,and 00. -
Boxing only Non-Racial Sport
Jack Johnson First Black Champion, lost to a white man. Never Gained a rematch since. -
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Flapper Models
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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Body Builder Image
The ideal man for the 1920s - 1930s was to look like a body builder. -
Kellerman's Bathing Suit
A popular bathing suit in the 1920s. -
Blacks Playing in the NFL
The NFL, finally had African Americans in the NFL -
Great Depression
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. -
Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight
The New York Times devoted the entire first 13 pages of the fight in there newspaper. -
African Americans Banned from the NFL
10 years later after allwoing blacks into the league. They banned all black from playing and joinging the leauge. -
Joe Louis
Joe Louis, won the Heavyweight Championship and first person to fight all races since Jack Johnson. -
Jackie Robinson
Racially intergration returned in 1946. When Robinson joined the montreal farm for the Brookyln Dodgers -
Sports Start To Chance
Sports in American starts to change for the better.
