Robert Peterson
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195076370
- eISBN:
- 9780199853786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195076370.003.0051
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter discusses racial discriminations that plagued Negro baseball. Their dreams of joining major leagues were fast dimming and segregation laws were enforced more strongly. The Northerners ...
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This chapter discusses racial discriminations that plagued Negro baseball. Their dreams of joining major leagues were fast dimming and segregation laws were enforced more strongly. The Northerners recognize that something needed to be done regarding the issue of Negroes playing in the major leagues but the issue never got to fruition. The reason the color bar could not be broken was because the Northerners would not recognize that there is one. Newspaper publications had a big hand in letting the issue simmer to the surface. However, by 1944, the New York State Legislature began considering the Ives-Quinn Bill to forbid discrimination in hiring on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin.Less
This chapter discusses racial discriminations that plagued Negro baseball. Their dreams of joining major leagues were fast dimming and segregation laws were enforced more strongly. The Northerners recognize that something needed to be done regarding the issue of Negroes playing in the major leagues but the issue never got to fruition. The reason the color bar could not be broken was because the Northerners would not recognize that there is one. Newspaper publications had a big hand in letting the issue simmer to the surface. However, by 1944, the New York State Legislature began considering the Ives-Quinn Bill to forbid discrimination in hiring on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin.
