HSTR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Satchel Paige, Branch Rickey, Communist Party Usa

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: History
• Course: HSTR 101
• Professor: Dr Rajala

Document Summary

Instability in negro baseball. economic and financial instability. more prominent: played a league scheduled by travelled around by bus, playing other blacks or semi-pro teams. By 1920, rube foster was a great player. It was a 6 teams league. all had their league schedule but travelled around too. Collapsed by: early in 1930s though, black crime bosses took over the national negro league, created new negro american league. Sometimes their path would cross with white players. One great black player: we were rarely in the same city couple of days . Players like him, obiously talented enough to play in major leagues. During 2nd world war, pressures were built to end this. Over 1 mil blacks moved from the deep south north to take jobs in the american war industries. Germany as well, a hateful system of administration, government. 1936, jesse owens was the star of the berlin olympics. American communist party, back newspapers attacked the ban.