Civil Rights Game [SEP] inception
Civil Rights Game
The Civil Rights Game was an annual Major League Baseball game that honored the history of civil rights in the United States and marked the unofficial end to the league's spring training.
The first Civil Rights game was played in 2007. The first two games were held at AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tennessee. The intent of the game was to "embrace baseball's history of African-American players", as well as to generate interest for future black players, after a demographics survey revealed that the
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- Paul Chaat Smith & Robert Allen Warrior, "Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee" (The New Press, 1997)
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "Hearing Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights" (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., ), several hearings, 1975-9
- Joel D. Weisman, "About that 'ambush' at Wounded Knee", "Columbia Journalism Review", Sep–Oct