Content Pathfinder for Sports History

General Information

Betty Sepe

Highland High School

Kent State

History via Sports

Grades – 11-12

Subject Area – Social Studies

Topic – The Negro Leagues and the Depression Era

The Negro Leagues and the Great Depression

Content Information

Sports history covers the economics, legal, constitutional issues and sociological aspects of sports in America. No textbook is used for this class. Course work is from a collection of outside readings and materials. Students will be expected to complete an independent research project on one topic of the class. The resources are located in the Dewey section 796.357 for baseball or 973.9 for the Depression Era.

Video

Baseball . Burns, Ken. PBS Video 1994. (dvd format).

There was always sun shining someplace: Life in the Negro Leagues (dir. Craig Davidson) b&w, 1989.

The Grapes of Wrath. (dir. John Ford). Starring, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Twentieth Century Fox, Key Video. 1988, (129 min.)

Web Sites

American Memory: Jackie Robinson Homepage

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html

Negro Leagues Legacy

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/mlb_negro_leagues.jsp

Barnstorming & the Negro Leagues 1900s-1930s

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jr1900s.html

Negro League Baseball Museum

http://www.nlbm.com/

INFOhio Electronic Resources

American National Biography. 2004

Annals of American History. 2004

Britannica Online.2004

EBSCO host.2004

Selected Articles from Electronic Resources

"Negro Leagues in the 1920s." DISCovering U.S. History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

http://galenet.galegroup.com

"Segregation in Baseball in the 1900s, 1900-1909." DISCovering U.S. History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

http://galenet.galegroup.com

Books

The Negro Leagues

The Baseball Chronology. Charlton, James (ed). New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1991.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Riley, James A.(ed.) Carroll & Gray, 2002.

Black Diamond: the story of Negro baseball leagues. McKissack, Patricia C. and Frederick McKissack. New York: Scholastic, 1994.

I Was Right on Time: My Journey from the Negro Leagues to the Majors. O’Neil, Buck. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

The Negro Leagues. Riley, James A. New York: Chelsea House, 1996.

Shadow ball : the history of the Negro leagues / by Geoffrey

C. Ward and Ken Burns, with Jim O'Connor. New York: Knopf, c1994.

The Great Depression

American Decades 1930-1939. Bondi, Victor. New York: Gale Research, 1995.

The Hungry Years: The Story of the great American Depression. Paradis, Adrian A. Philadelphia: Chilton Book, 1967

Life During the Great Depression. Nishi, Dennis. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1998.

Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move in the Great Depression. Uys, Errol Lincoln. New York: TV Books, 1999.

Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression. Ross, Stewart. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn. 1998.

From the Progressive Era to the Great Depression: 1900-1929. Watts, 1974.

Growing up in the Great Depression. Wormser, Richard. New York: Atheneim, 1994.