Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South by Bruce Adelson

Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South

Bruce Adelson

275 pages • paperback

1 edition

nonfiction history sports
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While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among them Hank Aaron, continued to struggle for acceptance on southern farm teams well into the 1960s. As B...

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