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Tuesday November 15, 2022
(93,749 Views) | Afternoon Movie: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) PG | Afternoon Movie: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) PG
Tuesday, November 15 @ 2:00 PM
Bristol Public Library
In partnership with the House of Dior, "Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris" tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves, and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
No charge.
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Tuesday November 15, 2022
(55,894 Views) | Before Brooklyn: The Heroes Unsung Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier | Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier
Tuesday, February 7 @ 6:30 PM
Online via Zoom
Sponsored by Bristol Public Library
In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman’s much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that was ultimately won by Robinson in 1947.
Ted Reinstein of WCBV-TV tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. He also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened, the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and the battle for integration began anew.
Presented online via Zoom. no charge. Valid email required to register.
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