Episode 104—Don’t Matter if You’re Black or White

What does hockey's first organized league and a colony of creative rabbits have in common? One was black, one was white, but both buck expectations and deserve some overdue recognition for being really freaking good in their fields. Listen and learn about The Colored Hockey League and The White Rabbits (women sculptors) of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

⁠CHL Commemorative Stamp⁠
Black Ice - CHL Colored Hockey League (video)⁠
The Truro Sheiks, CHL team 1931
CHL Championship Announcement

⁠Lorado Taft and his White Rabbits at work⁠
The White Rabbits working on Columbian Expo
Lorado Taft
Eternal Silence Sculpture, Graceland Cemetary (Taft)

White Rabbits:
- Julia Bracken Wendt
- Carol Brooks MacNeil
- Ellen Rankin Copp
- Helen Farnsworth Mears
- Janet Scudder
- Enid Yandell (with her Athena)
- Jean Pond Miner Coburn
- Bessie Potter Vonnoh

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CREDITS: Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations: The Banditry Co.

SPONSORS: This season of Shared History is sponsored by The Banditry Co.