Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>From the 1880s to the 1950s, Americans played a carnival game to throw balls at a black person. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1908 a man in Pennsylvania was struck rapidly, "pretty well used up", "with internal injuries which may prove fatal." Photo from a 1942 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YMCA</span></a> summer camp brochure.</p>