Baseball color line
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The color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball excluded African American players from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947. Racial segregation in pr
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier on April 15, 1947.
William Edward White
Moses Fleetwood Walker of the Toledo Blue Stockings, c. 1884
Chief Bender
Negro league baseball
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The Negro leagues were professional baseball leagues primarily in the United States comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the
Baseball color line
…full effect in the early 20th century, many black baseball clubs were established, especially from the 1920s to the 1940s when there were several Negro leagues. During this period, American Indians and native Hawaiians, including Prince Oana, were able to play in the Major Leagues. The color line was broken…
Octavius Catto, black baseball pioneer
Bud Fowler, the first professional black baseball player with one of his teams, Western of Keokuk, Iowa
Chicago Union Giants in 1905