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 Join the Hughes Main Lbirary for a six-week presentation of Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience! This national exhibition, along with discussions, lectures and film, will explore the history of black baseball players in America over the past 150 years.The story of African-Americans in baseball is a remarkable and fascinating slice of American history. Baseball is one of America’s central institutions, and it has long reflected the complicated and painful history of race in the United States. Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience tells the story of black baseball players in the U.S. over the past century and a half. Although many blacks played baseball with whites in the nineteenth century as amateurs and also played on minor league teams through the 1880s, black players were not allowed to compete with whites when major league baseball was created in the mid 1890s. To counter this discrimination, they organized teams made up entirely of black players and formed leagues that were known collectively as the Negro Leagues. When Jackie Robinson was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945, though, integration in baseball began a slow and uneven path to the integrated status of modern day teams. Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life. The traveling exhibition is based on an exhibition of the same name on permanent display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Established in 1921 with only 500 books, the Greenville County Library System has grown into eleven locations and a website offering information, entertainment, and enrichment with nearly 1 million available items. Visit any branch and you will find a welcoming place offering free Internet access, books, DVDs, music, online resources, research assistance, genealogy help, programs for all ages, and much more. A bookmobile serves the rural parts of the county and homebound service is available to those who cannot visit a local library. (Image provided by the Greenville County Public Libraries.)
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