What Next - One Year: The Team Nobody Would Play
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In honor Labor Day, What Next proudly presents the opening salvo from our colleagues at One Year: 1955. We'll be back in your feed tomorrow.
The Cannon Street All-Stars dreamed of playing in the 1955 Little League World Series. Their biggest obstacle didn’t come on the field. In the year that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus, these Black 12-year-olds became unlikely civil rights pioneers—and faced the wrath of a white society that wasn’t ready to change.
Josh Levin is One Year’s editorial director. One Year’s senior producer is Evan Chung.
This episode was produced by Kelly Jones and Evan Chung, with additional production by Sophie Summergrad.
It was edited by Joel Meyer and Derek John, Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts.
Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director.
Join Slate Plus to get the first three episodes of One Year: 1955 right away—and a bonus 1955 story at the end of the season. Slate Plus members also get to listen to all Slate podcasts without any ads. Sign up now to support One Year.
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| 1:04.4 | Hey, what next, listener? I have got a special end of summer treat for you this Labor Day. |
| 1:09.5 | It comes from one of my favorite Slate podcasts, One Year. One year is history like you've never |
| 1:15.5 | heard it before. In each season, host Josh Levine brings you the weirdest, wildest, and most |
| 1:20.9 | captivating moments from a single year in American history. You'll hear stories you may have forgotten, |
| 1:26.8 | and ones you will not believe you did not know, all told by the people who lived through them. |
| 1:31.7 | The new season of One Year covers 1955, and you're back to hear the first episode, |
| 1:36.9 | which is about an all-black team of 12-year-olds who dreamed of playing in the Little League World series, |
| 1:42.2 | but they had to battle the white establishment of the Jim Crow South to get there. |
| 1:46.6 | You will definitely want to hear what happens next. |
| 1:49.2 | So make sure you subscribe to One Year, and hear the whole season. |
| 1:53.4 | Here's host Josh Levine. |
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