In this second episode of The American Tapestry Project’s “Americans and Their Games: Sports in American History and Culture” we examine the experience of the Indigenous People and African Americans through the lens of those first excluded’s struggle for inclusion in the Story of America. We’ll discover lacrosse’s origins, meet Jim Thorpe, learn about the great Black jockeys who won 7 of the first 8 Kentucky Derby’s, meet Jack Johnson, and trace the story of minorities fighting for inclusion through the pathway of sports from pre-Civil War American down to the 21st century. That’s in Episode #35 of The American Tapestry Project.

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