Cabbage Patch football team, 1956
Item
Title
Cabbage Patch football team, 1956
Subject
Description
A photograph of the Cabbage Patch Settlement House football team, dated 1956. The team includes both Black and white children. The Cabbage Patch Settlement House desegregated their football team in the 50s. In interviews, the lifetime Cabbage Patch worker Roosevelt Chin claimed that the Cabbage Patch was "the very first" youth group in Louisville to desegregate. One member of this desegregated football team, Sherman Lewis, would go on to become a Super Bowl winning offensive coach.
Source
Cabbage Patch Settlement House Photograph Collection, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
Date
Format
Type
Identifier
019PC48 folder 05
Citation
“Cabbage Patch football team, 1956,” The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects, accessed September 12, 2024, https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/items/show/7016.
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