A Negro league team...........I went in there..........Smitty..............a bald guy whom the blacks rights groups had tour me around DC when I 1st made it back here in 2013.....................I used to go in alone to look at the pics and get a drink of water before Shaw library would open...............which is several blocks south.........the alien vampires there told me that water fountains are obsolete........

Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Library

Neighborhood Heroes: The Homestead Grays and a Changing Washington

Wednesday, July 15, 2015, 7 p.m.

       

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D.C.'s sports history is long and complicated: one of our first baseball teams was the Homestead Grays, a team that played in the Negro Leagues when baseball was a segregated sport. As the city they called home changed in race, class, economics, so did the Homestead Grays.

Anthony Gualtieri, historian and former curator at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, will take us through the team's history, showing how changes in neighborhood demographics and city politics affected the Homestead Grays. Before you come, read up on the history of baseball in the District, especially Bruce Snyder's Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Washington Grays and the Integration of Baseball.

Anthony Gualtieri will also present this talk at Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library, and Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library.

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