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National Museum of African American History and Culture
Museum galleries tracing sport as a stage for identity and resistance, from a champion boxer's training gear to an Olympic protest.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens inside Miami's Fifth Street Gym in early 1964, where a young boxer wraps his hands days before a title fight that will lead him to change his name. It follows the terrycloth robe and headgear he wore that year into this museum's sports collection, then moves through swimmer Simone Manuel's Olympic milestone and sociologist Harry Edwards's comparison of Jackie Robinson to Gandhi. Listen for how each object here was won on a field, a court, or in a ring.
This audio guide was created using AI.