The Wisdom Project is an oral history podcast featuring stories drawn from interviews and projects from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the University of Kentucky Libraries.
Apr 8, 2016
Episode #005 features an oral history interview with Effa Manley, the first African American woman to own a professional baseball team. She co-owned the Newark Eagles (Negro League) with her husband Abe Manley. In this episode Effa Manley looks back at the impact of Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball on the Negro League.
To listen to and search the oral history interviews from this podcast: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt7nzs2k9c74
Produced by Doug Boyd and Kopana Terry; Assistant Producer Charlotte Boyd