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SUMMARY:Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of the Negro Leagues exhibit opens
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, February 6\, the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center (CSRHC) will open the exhibit Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of the Negro Leagues which tells the complex history of Negro Leagues baseball. It is a truly American story\, full of aspiration\, injustice\, triumph\, and complexity. \nThe interactive exhibit explores the history of Black baseball\, through chronological chapters. From the beginning\, the leagues had their roots in racism\, the so-called “gentleman’s agreement” that effectively shut Black ballplayers out of big league competition for the first half of the 20th century. \nThe leagues also provided a structure for Black agency and entrepreneurship. In February 1920\, African American team owners convened at a YMCA in Kansas City to form a league of their own\, the Negro National League (NNL). The NNL and the other professional Black baseball leagues that followed created a forum where star players could showcase a style of speed\, daring and showmanship that would come to characterize the special excitement of Negro League play. \nThe Negro Leagues remained a robust institution for other Black players until one of their own\, the Kansas City Monarchs’ Jackie Robinson\, broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947. Three months later\, former Newark Eagles star Larry Doby integrated MLB’s American League. \nThe success of Robinson\, Doby and other players in the majors stands as an undeniable turning point in the history of American race relations. It also drew the attention of Black communities away from the Negro Leagues. The leagues gradually faded away. And yet\, despite their eventual demise\, the Negro Leagues defined a critical chapter of baseball’s full story\, shining a bright light on scores of African American ballplayers whose greatness might have otherwise\, tragically\, gone undiscovered. \nThe exhibit will remain open through Sunday\, April 21. \n \n  \nThe Negro Leagues Baseball Museum\, a not-for-profit organization devoted to the preservation of Negro Leagues baseball history\, has organized this traveling exhibition. \n  \n
URL:https://www.okhistory.org/calendar/event/discover-greatness-exhibit-opens/
LOCATION:Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center\, 507 South 4th Street\, Enid\, OK\, 73701\, United States
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