A Strong Right Arm Flashcards
“Do you have a dream? If you don’t, maybe my story will get you started working on one. If you do, darling, you’re already halfway to making it come true.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
“In some ways, that’s what my life has been about: tearing down walls to build something better.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
In this book, the first ball the main character used was a rock wrapped with sticky tape.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
“One that could tear the bark right off the tree branch the other fella was using for a bat.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
In this book, while the main character’s mother lived in Washington, D.C., she initially lived with her grandmother in Ridgeway, South Carolina.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
“Maybe I dreamed such big dreams because there was plenty of room to spread them out in Ridgeway.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
“When I go to pitch a ball, ain’t nothin’ soft about it.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
When Mamie moved to Long Branch, New Jersey after her grandmother died, she was told girls had to play softball, not baseball. Mamie quit softball after 3 games.
“Let’s go show them just how good we are.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Mamie and Rita attempting to try out for the All-American Girls League, but not being able to because they were Black.
“I didn’t have a Mr. Rickey behind me. All I had was myself and seventeen years of loving the game.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
In this book, Banneker Field was the main place for “coloreds” to play sports in Washington, D.C.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
In this book, Bish Tyson notices this character’s talent and gives her an opportunity for her dreams to come true.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Bish Tyson offered Mamie a tryout for the Indianapolis Clowns.
“How many times have you told me that this is what you were born to do?”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Mamie’s mother, to Mamie, before her Indianapolis Clowns try-out.
“I can’t remember exactly when I stopped being nervous, because I was having so much fun.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Mamie, speaking of her tryout.
“Seventeen years of waiting, and the only thing now between me and my dream was my name in ink on the bottom of the paper Bunny Downs was putting in my hands.”
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
In this book, the main character, after having spent many years in the North, had to learn how to be a Black person in the segregated South.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Mamie was in training with the Indianapolis Clowns in Portsmouth, Virginia, and had to drink for certain water fountains, and only frequent certain stores and restaurants.
