I'm teaching Sociology of Sports to American students and am looking for videos that will engage them and provoke discussion, notably on sportspersons who broke barriers in race, gender and sexuality. I'm obviously familiar with the tennis, boxing and athletics ones but am very sketchy on baseball, basketball etc and would appreciate help.
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We are travelling, so I am not in a position to link clips, but voices worth investigating would be Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul Jabbar for basketball,; Curt Flood, Dick Allen, Minnie Minoso for MLB, Buck O'Neil for the Negro Leagues and Kim Ng for the perspective of an Asian American female executive.
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If you want something contemporary, then of course there's Lewis Hamilton.
Though having said that, the barriers to getting an F1 drive are even higher now than before. The number of seats has fallen and the cost to run them has increased. There are arguably several better drivers in the lower formulas than some of the current F1 crop, but they have been overlooked because the F1 drivers have sugar daddy backing.
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I will expand this thread's purpose to include other types of sources I'm uncovering (partly for sharing, partly so I can retrieve them if I lose them in my crap filing system).
Part 1: 1885 - 1918:
1) 1885: Boston YWCA opens first gymnasium for women:
https://www.ywboston.org/about-us/our-story/
2) 1893: Senda Berenson Abbott: women's basketball, Smith College
https://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-fam...renson-abbott/
3) 1894: women's golf Morristown:
https://www.nytimes.com/1894/10/18/a...at-morris.html
4) 1895: Volleyball, Holyoke:
https://www.massmoments.org/moment-d...olleyball.html
5) 1896: Two women gatecrashed the 1896 marathon:
http://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/102.pdf
6) 1901: Constance Applebee: introduced women's field hockey to US:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history...ebee-constance
7) 1904: Lida Scott Howell, archery, St Louis Olympics (unofficial sport):
http://www.archeryhalloffame.com/Howell.html
https://olympics.com/en/athletes/matilda-scott-howell
8) 1912: first Olympic women's swimming final. This was filmed:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=792326661589718
9) 1916: Women's International Bowling Congress:
https://www.bowlingheritage.com/?s=1916
10) 1917: Lucy Diggs Slowe: first African American national champion in any sport
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/ex...in%20Baltimore.
11) 1918: Eleanora Sears: plays men at squash
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsoci...0through%20the,'
http://content.time.com/time/subscri...762134,00.html
https://faithfulreaders.com/2012/04/...inger-sargent/
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https://www.williedoc.com/
Willie O'Ree would be a great person to cover. First black NHL player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bktS...ReeDocumentary
Trailer for the documentary.
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Not the US, but close.
https://thehockeywriters.com/colored...history-month/
This guy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Taylor
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