Episode 71: Black Ballplayers as Foreign Correspondents

Historian Brian Campbell describes the experiences of African American athletes who played baseball and achieved social status in Latin America and the Caribbean from the 1930s to 1950s, and he discusses how journalists used their stories of racial equality abroad to critique the color line in the United States. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

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