Cessie Ree Cooper at bat during a women's softball game, Montgomery, Alabama.

Cooper was on a team from Newtown, and the umpire, Ralph Featherstone, was an employee at WRMA, an African American radio station in Montgomery. This image was taken for (but not used in) the photo spread "Play Ball!" which appeared on page 3 of The Southern Courier for July 22-23, 1967. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peppler, Jim
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/7047
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Summary:Cooper was on a team from Newtown, and the umpire, Ralph Featherstone, was an employee at WRMA, an African American radio station in Montgomery. This image was taken for (but not used in) the photo spread "Play Ball!" which appeared on page 3 of The Southern Courier for July 22-23, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No30_1967_07_22.pdf