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Hamtramck Stadium
1930 - Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
There is a federal record for this ballpark. It contains no photographs. That is not a note about a filing error. It is the story. Hamtram...
A Tribute to
Roosevelt Stadium
1937 - 1985 - Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
The color line in organized baseball did not break in Brooklyn. It broke here, in Jersey City, on April 18, 1946, and almost nobody remember...
A Tribute to
The Bonus Army
1932 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
In the summer of 1932 men who had been shot at in France built a town out of scrap lumber and packing crates on the mud flats across the Ana...
A Tribute to
The Hawks Nest Tunnel
1930 - 1935 - Fayette County, West Virginia, United States
They were told they were digging a tunnel. They were also mining, and nobody told them that. In 1930 Union Carbide, through a subsidiary ca...
A Tribute to
The Negro Motorist Green Book
1936 - 1966 - New York, New York, United States
The man who published the guide wrote that he was waiting for the day it would not have to exist. Victor Hugo Green was born in Manhattan o...
A Tribute to
The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky
1935 - 1943 - Hindman, Kentucky, United States
They were paid twenty-eight dollars a month, and they had to bring their own horse. There had been an attempt before. In 1913 a pack horse ...
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The Tuskegee Study
1932 - 1972 - Tuskegee, Alabama, United States
Almost everything most people believe about this study is wrong in one specific way, and the correction belongs at the top rather than burie...

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