black baseball players of all time, including satchel paige, josh gibson, "cool papa" bell, and many others. >> we had two columnists. chester washington started out, but it was primarily wendell smithusly to get negros into the major leagues. he's the first negro sportswriter to be in the baseball hall of fame. finally, when jackie robinson did make it, we put wendell with jackie to live with him for a whole year. >> and wendell actually lived with jackie, traveled with jackie, and you have to realize that during that period, there were places that jackie could not go. what wendell and the courier did, they found housing for both of them in various parts of the south. >> narrator: of course, there was more to the courier than just hard news. >> it showed black people not only as supermen and women but as ordinary people doing ordinary things, someone having a wedding, someone having a party, someone having a good time, as well as someone grieving. it showed the life of blacks in all dimensions, in all colors, and sometimes it was a lot of fun too. >> my column was funny. i made jokes about black people. take a column called "the horrors of integration," and i was reaching for some