Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige | Essay & Project Ideas

Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. Josh and Satch is filled with references to players and others involved in the Negro leagues besides Gibson and Paige. Choose one of them and research his or her life and then write a short biography of that person. You may wish to imitate Holway's style which emphasizes quotations from firsthand observers.

2. One player complains about having trouble finding service stations that would let African-Americans use their bathrooms. How widespread was this problem in those days? Was it exclusively a Southern problem, or were African-Americans refused service because of their race in other regions of the United States?

3. Why would there be marked differences between the behaviors of Northern and Southern African-Americans in the 1920s? What social forces were at work in shaping their behavior? Why would the Northerners and Southerners be antagonistic to each other?

4. Many African-American baseball players...
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