Tennis
This man is the father of two world renowned tennis players and had a movie named after him as he was played by Will Smith.
Who is Richard Williams?
These workers did thankless jobs like: muck out the stalls with pitchforks, loading wheelbarrows full of dirty straw to be carted off to the muck bins.
What are grooms?
What is football?
This was the league designated to Black people in America.
What is the NNL (national negro league)?
With the help of the Freedman's Bureau and these institutions, more HBCUs were formed.
What are religious institutions? Black church?
Who is Serena Williams?
These people are the bosses or business owners in the labor hierarchy. They interact with the horse owners, manage the equine workers (who are their employees).
Who are trainers?
Americans change rugby to American football and cricket to baseball because they were ANTI this nation...wanted to differentiate themselves.
Britain or Europe.
He was the first African American to integrate the National Baseball League?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Today over 100 HBCUs are in existence in the U.S. only accounting for less than five percent of American higher education institutions but graduating almost THIS percent of Black undergraduates
What is 20 percent?
The Williams sisters first learned their sport, not in a fancy tennis club, but on the run down courts in this California city.
What is Compton?
These people are paid per “mount,” hired by trainers to ride in particular races.
What are jockeys?
These institutions are credited for spreading the popularity of soccer in the US.
Colleges.
December 2020, the MLB began incorporating NNL THESE to gain a better picture of baseball in America
What are statistics?
The primary revenue source for the NCAA is the revenue gained from this NCAA Division I tournament
What is men's basketball?
She is the older sister of Serena and was granted the highest tennis endorsement deal of her time.
Who is Venus?
These people provide the capital to finance the care and training of the racehorses
Who are the owners?
This demographic was known to play soccer in the US.
Who are immigrants?
Baseball originated from this British pasttime/sport.
What is cricket?
After this decision in 1954, Black students were allowed to attend HWCUs.
What Brown vs Board of Education?
The Williams practice this faith
What is Jehovah's Witness?
Historians such as James Nicholson, Pellom McDaniels III, Katherine Mooney, and Maryjean Wall have identified the sport’s labor roots in this American institution, arguing that from its beginnings the industry was built on a racialized labor structure
The four reasons soccer did not succeed in the US is because baseball occupied spring and summer, it wasn't modernized for US culture, it served as recreation and THIS major reason,
What is, it was not an "American" pasttime?
The MLB incorporated night games from the NNL and the also adapted this skill/move: Jackie Robinson is recorded for being the first to ever do this to home in 1947
What is steal bases?
Deion Sanders left Jackson State in the SWAC Conference with a 4-year $1.2 million ($300,000/yr) contract to this HWCU for a 5-year $29.5 million contract ($5.5 million/yr).
What is the University of Colorado?