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Home 1920's Topics __1920’s Project Assignment__ National Negro Baseball League (1920-1930) Mitch Nini


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__Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7__ Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:**Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.**
 * Support the ideas in each paragraph with evidence from a minimum of  three credible sources.
 * Select only signed  sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited.
 * Insert the Works Cited after the Third Task.
 * Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 28px;">Mitch, <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 28px;">For all 3 tasks each paragraph needs 3 different sources. Please place the works cited after Task 3.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Towards the turn of the 20th century, professional black baseball teams began to form in the Midwest. After World War I, black baseball had become the number one entertainment for blacks throughout the country. “Established on February 13, 1920, at a YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri,” Andrew Rube Foster organized the first ever official negro baseball league (History of the Negro Major Leagues). As president of the league, Foster was often considered the “father of black baseball” for his acts towards legitimizing blacks as professional baseball players. In 1920, the league consisted of eight teams: the Chicago American Giants, Chicago Giants, Dayton Marcos, Detroit Stars, Indianapolis ABC’s, Kansas City Monarchs, St. Louis Giants, and the Cuban Stars. The Negro National League “flourished for ten great years until (Foster’s) sudden death in 1930” (Andrew Rube Foster). With not only the impact of the great depression, it is easy to determine that Foster’s leadership and influence on the league was significant enough to cause it to end after he passed away.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The establishment of the Negro National League achieved a great deal of achievements in its ten year reign. The league expanded from 8 teams to start, to as many as 24 teams before it’s demise. In 1923, another black baseball league called the Eastern Colored League was organized and “from 1924-1927, the two leagues played four Negro World Series” (Negro Baseball Leagues). Though, The Great Depression took its toll on the league and it deeply affected the black community. The depression “caused additional stress and struggle in a community that already fought racism. Money for leisure activities, such as paying to attend a baseball game, was just not readily available for most blacks” (Negro Baseball Leagues). To survive, many of the teams began barnstorming, by moving their teams all across the country. In essence, the National Negro League was "a very successful baseball league in the 1920’s" (History of the Negro Major Leagues), affecting the lives of many great black athletes and giving them the opportunity to professionally play the sport they loved.

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">__Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">POST PARAGRAPHS HERE

===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The scope of influence for the Negro National League was not very broad. The league was appealing only to blacks throughout the country. “ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The local black baseball team was just about the only entertainment available to the African-American community” (Sacrifice Play). Other than watching NNL baseball, African Americans did not have any other form of sports entertainment. Also, the NNL vs. the ECL game was very popular among African Americans. That game “attracted black fans from all over the country” (Sacrifice Play). The NNL brought African Americans throughout America with the opportunity to watch their own race play professionally for the first time. Unfortunately, due to barnstroming it was hard for some towns to thoroughly support their home town teams for long. Teams would barnstorm by "packing up and moving across to cities around the country to survive" (History of the Negro Major Leagues). The constant moving contributed to the league to end, along with the Great Depression and the death of Rube Foster. ===

===<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> There was a standing legacy after the demise of the NNL. After WWII, Negro Leagues were beginning all around the country. “The leagues were stable, player salaries were good, and attendance was increasing” (They Just Wanted to Play). Black baseball was at its peak. Because of black baseball, Jackie Robinson brought the enduring legacy of becoming the first black player in the MLB. In 1944, Robinson played "for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League" (Jackie Robinson). Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, offered Robinson an unprecedented opportunity “to become the first black player in major league baseball history” (Jackie Robinson). Without Jackie Robinson, sports could possibly not be the way they are today. ===

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">POST PARAGRAPHS HERE <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The forces that produced the Negro National League was nothing more than the determination of Rube Foster to establish a league full of players like himself. Rube’s determination caused for the league to flourish all around America until his sudden death and The Great Depression. The NNL “operated successfully for several years before they fell victim to financial difficulties” (Riley) due to the The Great Depression. The African American society had a tremendous reaction towards the NNL and other negro baseball leagues throughout the years. Baseball was the only sport that African Americans could play professionally at the time, so support for local teams helped the league flourish for the ten years that it did (Sacrifice Play). The organization of the NNL caused the establishment of many other negro leagues. A few of the leagues that established were the Eastern Colored League, the Negro American League, and the second Negro National League (Riley). Black baseball was on an upwards slope until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe that Rube Foster could be considered both a Great Man and an Event Making Hero. Rube Foster could be considered a Great Man because of the leadership he possessed. Foster “managed the league until his death in 1931” (History of the Negro Major Leagues) which was one of the major causes of the league’s demise. Another reason Foster can be called a Graet Man is because of the enduring legacy. African American baseball players today, like “Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, and Prince Fielder” (Sacrifice Play) are now able to play baseball professionally because of Foster’s determination, along with civil rights movements. The legacy that blacks have in baseball today is unbelievable. Also, Foster can be considered an Event Making Hero because he did something that has never been done before. The NNL “was the first professional black baseball league in America” (Foster). Other than in a recreational stand point, blacks at the time had never before had the opportunity to play baseball professionally before Rube Foster organized the NNL, thus making him an Event Making Hero as well.


 * Great Man Criteria: Use a scale of 0-to 5 to evaluate the individual’s accomplishments, legacy, influence, and impact. **
 * 0=not at all, 1=little effect, 2=short run, 3=moderate, 4=wide-spread, 5=long run **

Civil Society Defined Great Man Continuum
 * Great Man Criteria || ** 5=long-run ** || ** 4=wide-spread ** || ** 3=moderate ** || ** 2=short run ** || ** 1=little effect ** || ** 0=not at all ** ||
 * ** SIGNIFICANCE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ** || x ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** ENDURANCE OF LEGACY ** || x ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** EXTENT OF INFLUENCE ** ||  || x ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** IMPACT ON DAILY LIFE ** ||  ||   || x ||   ||   ||   ||

Individuals with high totals, mostly 5’s, should be placed close to Great Men; those with low scores near social determinism.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">Great Man Continuum <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Great --x-Event Making -Eventful -Social <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Men --Hero -Hero ---Determinism

<span style="background-color: #7dff00; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px;">POST WORKS CITED HERE <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tygiel, Jules. "Robinson, Jackie." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. n

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Colin A. Palmer. 2nd ed. Vol. 5. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 1966-1968. Gale Power Search. Web. 3 Feb. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Andrew Rube Foster, Father of Negro League Baseball." Negro League Baseball

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Players Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <http://www.nlbpa.com>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“History of the Negro Major Leagues.” Negro League Baseball Players Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Coates, James R. "Negro Baseball Leagues." Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conrads, David.. "Sacrifice Play: The Negro Baseball Leagues Remembered." World & I. 01 Feb. 1996: 185 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> eLibrary. Web. 12 Feb. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blohm, E, Craig.. "They Just Wanted to Play." Cobblestone. 01 Apr. 2010: 13. eLibrary. Web. 12 Feb. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tygiel, Jules. "Robinson, Jackie." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin A. Palmer. 2nd ed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Vol. 5. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 1966-1968. Gale Power Search. Web. 12 Feb. 2012.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><http://blackbaseball.com/2010/12/the-negro-leagues-an_introduction/>
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Rubric for all three tasks:

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Accurate power paragraph format with <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">each paragraph citing evidence from <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement, <span style="color: #ff3400; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">internal citations, Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum; <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Complete the criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement.