Kansas City Monarchs 1945 Home All Star Baseball Cap Sisters community control

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The work of art featured is titled "Praise Him" and depicts a group of African American women giving all praise through word and dance to the Messiah Jesus and the Heavenly Father

posed as a man during her service

A hand made African carving crafted by a master artisan from Sierra Leone out of wood

Each wristlet is made out of up cycled denim and African wax print textile fabric

Kansas City Monarchs 1945 Home All Star Baseball Cap Sisters community controlThis navy and gold All Star cap honors the year a rookie shortstop named Jack Roosevelt Robinson pulled on a Monarchs uniform for the first time, lit up the Negro American League with a batting average above . 370, and earned a starting spot on the West squad at the East West All Star Game in Chicago's Comiskey Park. Months later, Branch Rickey signed him to the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, and the color line in Major League Baseball began to crack.