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In his career with the happenings of the harlem renaissance. Mr. Wil haygood connections to the hughes and lena horne. A generation of africanamericans found success in their perspective fields during the start of a broader Civil Rights Movement. Wil haygood discusses i his boos with an agent magazine. Another of the peoples history of sports in the united states. Host welcome my name is dave and i am the Sports Editor for the nations magazine and im absolutely thrilled at the interview, to be interviewing a man who has written a tremendous biography about the greatest pound for pound boxer of the 20th century. That boxers name is walker, smith junior. Better known as Sugar Ray Robinson. And the author, is wil haygood. How you doing. Wil im good and its good to be here. Host it is great to be here. Dave i reall ....
[cheering and applause]. There in the washington dc area. And viewers of cspan, we love you. And of course the regular viewers as well. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. So first i will tell you about the different between history and destiny. And we all know what this history. Its what happened. But destiny is what must happen. And its true, cant believe this is happening but my father may he rest in peace was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, was also struck by lightning. And the means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. I was doing my son last week, the story and telling him, listen, my dad was struck by lightning in my is that was due. In his democrat, we can be struck by lightning. And i said you wont be but sure, you might be. This is true. My son, and my wife and my kids work taking amtrak train from new york city to washington dc for this event. In the train, was struck by lightning. My son texted me and said youre not going to ....
History. And specifically today we will focus on what i call baseball during the Great Depression. A lot of things that have been ten when developing throughout the semester in one of my classes as you can learn by looking at baseball and were going to see that inaction today suddenly start with the things for lecture today, and looking at the age of baseball and until you what that is a little bit of that is not a familiar word for you. Also with journalism another media and this is in sports during the Great Depression romania pretty in relationship emerging in baseball and the media and you can see some of the origins of that during the semester but here kind of reaches the pinnacle and also depression on baseball and this tremendous event for the entire nation it happened we understand that event by looking at baseball then of course what is this and why did i choose ....
History. And specifically today we will focus on what i call baseball during the Great Depression. A lot of things that have been ten when developing throughout the semester in one of my classes as you can learn by looking at baseball and were going to see that inaction today suddenly start with the things for lecture today, and looking at the age of baseball and until you what that is a little bit of that is not a familiar word for you. Also with journalism another media and this is in sports during the Great Depression romania pretty in relationship emerging in baseball and the media and you can see some of the origins of that during the semester but here kind of reaches the pinnacle and also depression on baseball and this tremendous event for the entire nation it happened we understand that event by looking at baseball then of course what is this and why did i choose ....