Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 write by Sol White. This book was released on 1996-08-01. Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America and baseball are rediscovering the game played by African Americans before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. We now know a great deal about the Negro Leagues of 1920 on, and their great stars-Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and their contemporaries. But what of the pre-1920 black game? From the onset in the 1880s of the "gentleman's agreement" that barred blacks from playing in white leagues, that game is nearly invisible. Financially shaky, with sporadic media coverage even in black newspapers and completely overlooked by the mainstream, Negro teams of this era played on for love of the game and in hopes that their skills would receive their due. In 1907, Sol White, a remarkable African-American ballplayer, successful manager, and baseball loyalist, wrote a small volume on the history of the black game. Part fund-raising effort, advertising brochure, team hype, celebration of black baseball, and throughout an implicit and explicit challenge to racism, Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball is the source of much of what we know of the events in the organized black game of that time. The original was poorly printed, and copies are exceedingly rare (known and rumored copies number only four). This edition republishes the full 1907 edition (with the even rarer supplement), completely reset for legibility, and reproduces all the original's illustrations, including the advertisements that speak volumes on the social world of the day. Fifteen additional documents from 1886 to 1936 augment the picture of the black game and our record of Sol White himself. The work is introduced by Jerry Malloy, a recognized expert on the history of Negro leagues who has spent years inpainstaking research into this vanished world.
The Forgotten History of African American Baseball
The Forgotten History of African American Baseball - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten History of African American Baseball write by Lawrence D. Hogan. This book was released on 2014-01-27. The Forgotten History of African American Baseball available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond. For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten. This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.
Black Americans and Organized Labor
Black Americans and Organized Labor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Americans and Organized Labor write by Paul D. Moreno. This book was released on 2008. Black Americans and Organized Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity: White unionists found that race was a convenient basis on which to do what unions do -- control the labor supply. Not racism pure and simple but "the economics of discrimination" explains historic black absence and under-representation in unions. Moreno's sweeping reexamination stretches from the antebellum period to the present, integrating principal figures such as Frederick Douglass and Samuel Gompers, Isaac Myers and Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois and A. Philip Randolph. He traces changing attitudes and practices during the simultaneous black migration to the North and consolidation of organized labor's power, through the confusing and conflicted post-World War II period, during the course of the civil rights movement, and into the era of affirmative action. Maneuvering across a wide span of time and a broad array of issues, Moreno brings remarkable clarity to the question of the importance of race in unions. He impressively weaves together labor, policy, and African American history into a cogent, persuasive revisionist study that cannot be ignored.
Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 6
Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 6 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 6 write by Leslie A. Heaphy. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 6 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. BACK ISSUE Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts. Prior to Volume 9, Black Ball was published as Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal. This is a back issue of that journal.
When Baseball Went White
When Baseball Went White - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Baseball Went White write by Ryan A. Swanson. This book was released on 2014-06-01. When Baseball Went White available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Explains how in the decade following the Civil War, baseball became segregated because its leaders wanted to grow its presence and appeal to Southerners, and wanted to professionalize it. The result was the exclusion of black players that lasted until 1947"--
