The booker T four's unlikely journey from prison baseball to the Negro Leagues
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One of history's pleasant ironies was that a prison baseball program intended to lull inmates to docility would instead create the 'colored team without a peer in the state of Kansas' and send four players to the Negro league. The game helped four inmate players overcome nearly incalculable odds to reach the African American Negro Leagues, the peak of the profession open to them in the early twentieth century.
Publication Name: Prologue
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0033-1031
Year: 2004
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FDR as architect invoking the image of old hickory
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An account of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's visit to Andrew Jackson's home, the Hermitage, outside of Nashville is given. He would invoke the image and reputation of Andrew Jackson to portray his administration as the friend of the common man, who was so hard hit by the nation's economic problems.
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Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0033-1031
Year: 2004
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