Marked Men and Unmarked Graves Black Baseball and White Supremacy in Jim Crow America
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.05.2027
Verlag
NebraskaSeitenzahl
264
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4962-4040-8
Marked Men and Unmarked Graves chronicles baseball's flirtation with integration in the decades after the Civil War, when the national game became an experiment in race relations. Charles Douglass, the third son of Frederick Douglass, and the doomed civil rights activist Octavius Catto founded teams that confronted segregation in the late 1860s. Dozens of Black players participated in professional baseball during the 1870s and 1880s, including some of the best players in the game--Ulysses Franklin Grant, Bud Fowler, King Solomon (Sol) White, and Moses Fleetwood Walker. Jim Crowism forced these men from baseball. They faded into obscurity and were buried in unmarked graves.
Professional baseball remained formally segregated for the next several decades. Yet, there was more integration in baseball than perhaps any other aspect of American life. All-white Major and Minor League teams played hundreds of exhibition games against Black teams, often before large crowds of white spectators, which challenged assumptions about the racial inferiority of Black people. Baseball diamonds provided a sense of salvation for Black players. They did not have to adhere to segregation laws during games but only to the rules and customs. White sportswriters often praised these ballplayers during a time when the names of Black people rarely appeared in newspapers. The presence of so many Black players sharing the same ballfield with white players when racial segregation was rigidly enforced elsewhere presents an opportunity to examine this anomaly and how it was covered in white newspapers.
Chris Lamb tells the journalistic story of how courageous Black ballplayers, risking serious injury, became "marked men" by confronting segregation in white professional baseball. Marked Men and Unmarked Graves reveals a long-neglected piece of history in the fight for racial equality in baseball and in America in the decades preceding Jackie Robinson and the Civil Rights Movement.
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