The Baseball Game Between the KKK and a Negro League Team

Mr. Beat tells the story of an unlikely baseball game between a KKK team and a Negro League team in Wichita, Kansas, on June 21st, 1925.Show more

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4hkuJQcYiBi4WmBjSbHMKZBTTZeDaYACgJHrlgCz3c/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading and looking:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181217022348/https://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1997summer_pendleton.pdf
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article252108928.html
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2019/02/28/history-guy-wichita-baseball-game-featured-negro-league-team-versus-ku-klux-klan/5805212007/
https://sabr.org/journal/article/beating-the-klan-baseball-coverage-in-wichita-before-integration-1920-1930/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190205060645/https://www.ksn.com/news/local/hidden-history-1925-baseball-game-between-klan-negro-league-team/1744158240
http://www.wichitaphotos.org/searchresults.asp?txtinput=Ackerman
https://pocketsights.com/tours/place/Ackerman-Island-12111:1499

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