If you want to truly understand just how monumental, how transformative it is that the NFL’s Washington football team on Monday officially dumped its racist nickname, the Redskins, we need to briefly go back in time to the year 1961.
The owner of the organization, George Preston Marshall, had refused to integrate the team, 14 years after Jackie Robinson integrated baseball in 1947. Washington was the last NFL team to do so and Marshall once famously said: “We’ll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.”
Eventually, he was...
The owner of the organization, George Preston Marshall, had refused to integrate the team, 14 years after Jackie Robinson integrated baseball in 1947. Washington was the last NFL team to do so and Marshall once famously said: “We’ll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.”
Eventually, he was...
- 7/13/2020
- by Mike Freeman, Sportico
- Rollingstone.com
The first week in June will be a change of scenery for 22 Arizona youths as they go on a camping trip to northern Arizona - a first for many of them. The students, who will be armed with digital cameras, are participating in the Stewart L. Udall Parks in Focus program, which gives young environmental leaders (Udall scholarship alumni) the opportunity to pass their knowledge to children who might never have seen a national park or spent time exploring a wilderness area.
- 5/31/2010
- Arizona Reporter
In 2010, the Udall Foundation and the National Park Service will begin a pilot partnership to expand the Udall Foundation.s Stewart L. Udall Parks in Focus Program to include components of the National Trails System.
Since 1999, Parks in Focus has been creating the new generation of public stewards by connecting under-served youth to nature through the art of photography. With the help of trained Udall Scholarship alumni leaders, the Udall Foundation organizes week-long trips to introduce members of local Boys & Girls Clubs, many of whom have never before left their communities, to some of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the country. The Udall Foundation provides digital cameras to the young participants to use and keep and teaches the basics of photography,
ecology, and conservation while exploring national parks, wildlife refuges, and other public lands.
Since 1999, Parks in Focus has been creating the new generation of public stewards by connecting under-served youth to nature through the art of photography. With the help of trained Udall Scholarship alumni leaders, the Udall Foundation organizes week-long trips to introduce members of local Boys & Girls Clubs, many of whom have never before left their communities, to some of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the country. The Udall Foundation provides digital cameras to the young participants to use and keep and teaches the basics of photography,
ecology, and conservation while exploring national parks, wildlife refuges, and other public lands.
- 4/6/2010
- Arizona Reporter
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