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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. ...

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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 wou...

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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...

I thought, hmm, if theres a lot of black girls and women in the mid century trying to play baseball maybe theres a longer history here. Thats what set me out to find some of the stories in the book that take us from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, and looking at black women and sporting history in the 20th century. Two names, one quite familiar, hank arron and stony stone . Yeah. Again, like i said, those baseball women who i stumbled upon, they were brought in at the kind of fall of t...

Wikipedia, anybody could write wikipedia. You could write wikipedia. I write wikipedia. Anybody who wants to share in the compilation and sharing of human knowledge. How do you check it . One of the fundamental rules of wikipedia is that everything is verifiable, and so anything that you read on wikipedia should have been written in an another reliable source first. And then it was cited in wikipedia and summarized. So if you look at a wikipedia article and you look all the way at the bottom, al...

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