San antonio is here because of these missions. What is really wonderful is that a lot of people who called us here canme and come trace their ancestry to the colonial period, the people who build these mission buildings and who built these churches are the missions are about the start of the city of san antonio. The entrance. This is a part of San Antonio Missions National Historic park. This is a unit of the National Park service. There are more than 400 National Park sites around the country. 419 help to tell some part of the american story, the part of the american story that we tell here at the San Antonio Mission is the Spanish Colonial history of this area of this part of the world. Mission san jose is one of formations that make up the National Park. Fourark is comprised of missions. We have a model of this mission, mission san jose. Shows themodel that , the exterior walls were a series of rooms that served as the living quarters for the mission inhabitants. Also, inon compound
Raise your hand and a student worker with a microphone will come to you. Please stand if you are able and ask just one, brief question. We have a loop Hearing Program as well as a limited number of listening devices. If you have questions about the loop system or if at any time during the program you have difficulty hearing, please alert one of our Staff Members or student volunteers. Before we begin, i would like to remind you to please turn off your cell phones. Now, please join me in welcoming senior associate director, dr. Barbara ballard. Dr. Ballard i was a good evening. This is the Third Program of the lecture series. Is director of communications, robert rowland. We would like to think the university of kansas studies, the department of history, and the department of political science. The interview will be conducted by the Dole Institute director. We have a former Senior Analyst and intelligence expert and intelligence counsel to Senate Majority leaders robert dole and trent l
Women in sports including women who played baseball in the negro leaks in the 1950s and women who participated in olympic sports. This interview was recorded at the historical meeting. Let me begin with yearbook expected to be published in about a year. What have you learned so far . So many things. I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find. It was not any archive labeled this is a history of black women in sports. I would say i got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro s. Gues in 1950 when the one of the things that stuck out to me as the owner who brought in these women to play against the men as he had something called the gal file. That kind of stuck in my head as a young graduate student. If there is a lie of black women in the mid century trying to book time to play baseball, then that set me out on a number of other stories i have from track to tennis and really looking
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I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labeled , this is the history of black sports. So i had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. It was a remarkable story. They played with the men. One of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play with the man said he had a file where women across the country were writing in to request tryouts. That stuck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, is there a lot of black girls history trying to play baseball, maybe theres is a Hidden History here. So that made me go out to find other stories in the book, from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, really looking at black women in sporting history in the 20th century. Let me talk about two names, oe is quite familiar