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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BaseballGames, post: 1256726, member: 7826&quot;]Well, Robinson&#039;s story is well known, and there&#039;s memorabilia aplenty to be found (if expensively, in most cases).&nbsp; Hopefully your museum will highlight far lesser known but equally important individuals and stories.&nbsp; The history of racial integration of pro sports is too often confined to those who broke the color barrier in the <i>currently existing</i> major leagues, ignoring those who broke the color line (or were the earliest victims of the color line) in the pro ranks in earlier versions of the big leagues.&nbsp; Frank Grant in major league baseball, Charlie Follis, Doc Baker, and Henry McDonald in pro football (long before the NFL&#039;s Marion Motley, Woody Strode, Kenny Washington, and Bill Willis), Willie O&#039;Ree in the NHL...&nbsp; interesting timing, as Wat Misaka passed away just last week, but before he became the first non-white guy in the NBA, there were African-American players in other (pre-NBA) pro and semi-pro basketball leagues (the NBA&#039;s done quite a job of burying and obscuring those leagues&#039; histories).&nbsp; Obviously you&#039;ve got the already famous Olympic stories of Jim Thorpe, Duke Kahanamoku, and Jesse Owens, among others...&nbsp; and for gender integration, Toni Stone is a fascinating story, Manon Rheaume another (although less successful)...&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Again, depending on your institution&#039;s budget, you might do well looking in on some of the better auction houses that specialize in sports memorabilia -- Hunt Auctions, Robert Edward, Heritage, and so on -- for items related to your subject.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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