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Monday, April 28, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
- 8:00 p.m.
Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach, Kirby Auditorium
525 Arch Street, Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215.409.6700
America has always struggled to live up to ideals expressed in the
Declaration of Independence and the freedoms written by the Founding
Fathers in the Constitution. Nowhere has this idea played out more
visibly than on the baseball field where men and women have fought to
cross racial, cultural, and gender barriers for the equal opportunity
to play the game. The National Constitution Center presents “Baseball: The Melting Pot,”
a special conversation about the ways in which the game of baseball has
served as a reflection of our social tensions as well as ideals, and
our struggle to become a more inclusive society.
Kerry Yo Nakagawa, an expert on the history of Japanese Americans in baseball, will be one of the speakers.
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