sports freedom and the 4th

Sports has a unique spot in us history it has sometimes been ahead of society as a whole in the matter of eqaulty and civil rights. when we were still a legally segregated society Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby and others broke the segertation of major leauge baseball Arthur Ashe and Lee Elder in tennis and golf repectively Elder geeting death threats before he played in the Master's at Augusta undauanted he played. Curt Flood risked his carrer to fight the unjust labor practices or the baseball owners these are all courageous freedom fighters. Today we seem to think that the miltary are the only defenders of America's freedom but, private citizens have always been the bread and butter of the protections and liberties that we enjoy. These aforementioned athletes exhibted courage against racism and death threats to help this country thorugh some dark times where freedom was not always prevelant, as Lincoln said in his Gettysburgh Address to lead us to a more perfect Union but because of freedom fighters like this we as a country are moving closer in that direction.