Jun 26th, 2024
Sporting Justice: the Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958.
Miriam Wright
Historian Deirdre McCorkindale will discuss the weaponization of Ontario’s Underground Railroad history in a public lecture Thursday.
Jan 30th, 2024
Historian Deirdre McCorkindale will discuss the weaponization of Ontario’s Underground Railroad history in a public lecture Thursday.
Biographer Jane Rhodes will discuss the life and significance of Mary Ann Shadd Cary in a public presentation Monday.
Oct 12th, 2023
Biographer Jane Rhodes will discuss the life and significance of Mary Ann Shadd Cary in a public presentation Monday.
Hall of Fame pitcher Fergie Jenkins Jr. narrates a video for the Toronto Blue Jays that draws on the UWindsor project archiving material about the Chatham Coloured All Stars.
Feb 18th, 2022
The Toronto Blues Jays featured a UWindsor project about the Chatham Coloured All Stars in its video series on Black History Month.
Jul 16th, 2019
A profile of Assumption College grad Fred Thomas dubs him “The greatest Canadian athlete you’ve never heard of.”
Comic books bringing to life the championship story of baseball’s Chatham Coloured All-Stars will be distributed to schools and libraries this summer.
May 21st, 2019
Comic books bringing to life the championship story of baseball’s Chatham Coloured All-Stars will be distributed to schools and libraries this summer.
Heidi Jacobs will discuss her work on the Chatham Coloured All-Stars archive in a free public lecture April 25.
Apr 19th, 2018
Heidi Jacobs will discuss her work on the Chatham Coloured All-Stars archive in a free public lecture April 25.
A reception Tuesday, March 20, will celebrate the accomplishments of UWindsor researchers.
![Dave Johnston, Miriam Wright and Heidi Jacobs were awarded with the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for their project Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred "Boomer" Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (193](http://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/sites/uwindsor.ca.dailynews/files/styles/full/public/colourbarrier-2.jpg?itok=_lKrIf97 "Dave Johnston, Miriam Wright and Heidi Jacobs were awarded with the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for their project Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred "Boomer" Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (193")
Dave Johnston, Miriam Wright and Heidi Jacobs were awarded with the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for their project Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred "Boomer" Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (1932-1939).
Feb 27th, 2018
There were no easy games for the Chatham Coloured All-Stars.
It's what Wilfred "Boomer" Harding recalled decades after his team was forced to overcome adversity both on and off the baseball diamond to become champions of the Ontario Baseball Amateur Association's Intermediate B-1 class in 1934.
That road to the championship game was onerous.
The Black baseball team travelled across the province to compete in games, often being denied accommodations and forced to continue driving in precarious conditions before eventually reaching a welcome refuge.
A set of 21 baseball cards celebrates the players who made up the barrier-breaking baseball team, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars.
Jan 31st, 2018
The Chimczuk Museum will celebrate Black History Month with free admission Thursday and the opening of a display by UWindsor researchers.