Brushing Back Jim Crow
Minor league baseball
Discrimination in sports
African americans, southern states
African American baseball players
Baseball, history
United states, race relations
History
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 Bruce Adelson writes, their presence in the South Atl…
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