Smithsonian’s ‘Hometown Teams’
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
Since the late nineteenth century, African Americans have participated in a variety of sports and contributed in profound ways to Iowa’s sporting culture. African Americans experienced severe discrimination in sports as in other activities, but fought long and hard to overcome racism.
In Iowa, they frequently used achievement in sports as a way to come together as a community. These countless narratives both on and off the court, field, and ring, remind us of the broader struggle for civil rights in America.
Presented by the African American Museum of Iowa
This is one of 10 events scheduled while the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” exhibit is in Mt Vernon, Iowa.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
Moderated by Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun’s Margaret Stevens and featuring John Campbell, Mark Dukes, Crystal Eskelsen, Ron Gonder, Jeff Linder, and JR Odgen, this panel will explore Eastern Iowa Sports stories of the last quarter century through moderator and audience questions.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” comes to Mount Vernon from March 18 to April 28, 2018.
Historian John Liepa will explore the myths regarding the “invention” of baseball, the origins and evolution of the early game in the United States; how the Civil War played a role in accelerating the spread of the game; the very first mention of the game’s coming to Iowa in 1858, and how it caught on. […]