Word: segregationism
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy tells the fascinating story of this transformation, how Blacks broke down the doors of the exclusive club that was major league baseball pre-1948. Starting with the segregation of the early 1900s, Jules Tygiel delves into the evolution of the Negro...
It is even more difficult to conceive of all the ways--and Tygiel recounts many--in which baseball desegregation helped directly speed national efforts. Just consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply...
I. Non-segregation of the races on all eating convert and work facilities. II. Equal and fair employment practice for all employees.
I. Non-segregation of the races on all eating, comfort and work facilities.
With the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the struggle for racial equality in America was transformed. The energy that blacks had rammed against the wall of segregation was diverted into an effort to win political power of their own. As millions of blacks began registering and voting...