Museum Visit: Jazz and Baseball Museum in Kansas City

April 5th, 2014 I attended a Student Support Services (SSS) trip to Kansas City. While there we went to the Museum of Jazz and Baseball. The whole museum was specifically about African Americans within the two fields of entertainment. Out of every thing that was included in the museum about baseball, there was only one section pertaining to women. The attached photos was just that.

The article was about the first African American Female Baseball Team. It talked about how they were not allowed to play in the league, however they were better than the majority of their male counterparts. The picture itself is very offensive in the way that they portray the woman. The depict her as having a huge butt, big lips, and is insanely dark in her face. 

In the jazz portion of the museum, they had a lot information pertaining to women. Overall I really enjoyed my time at the museum, but it was a shocking moment when I saw the depiction of the woman in the baseball photo. The way people portrayed black women in the past was a lot worse than how they are portrayed today in illustrations, however there are a lot of similarities. I would have been more involved with the museum if they did include a lot more information and pictures about African American women.