The book is generally considered to have been inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois's 1915 book The Negro.
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From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Atlanta Black Crackers, a baseball team in the Negro Southern League, and later on, in the Negro American League, entertained sports fans at Ponce de Leon Park; some of the members of the Black Crackers would become players in Major League Baseball following the integration of the Negro Leagues into the larger leagues.
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Martiniquan psychiatrist and philosopher, Frantz Fanon in his 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks mentions the grinning Senegalese tirailleur as an example of how in a burgeoning consumer culture, the Negro appears not only as an object, but as "an object in the midst of other objects".
The issue was first brought to national attention in 1965 by sociologist and later Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in the groundbreaking Moynihan Report (also known as "The Negro Family: The Case For National Action".
Former players for the Dutch Masters include Scott Garrelts, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants (was supposed to pitch the opener in the 1989 World Series, but an earthquake had other ideas); Mark Scheiwe, drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1979 (the same year Scott was drafted by the Giants), but never making it to the big league because of injury; and Ernie Westfield, who played in the Negro League and still represents them publicly.
White's best known work is The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy, a mural at Hampton University depicting a number of notable blacks including Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Peter Salem, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Marian Anderson.
"I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name", a line from his 1959 rendition of the Negro spiritual "Mary Don't You Weep" served as Paul Simon's inspiration to write his 1970 song "Bridge over Troubled Water".
Cleveland Tate Stars, Negro league baseball team in the Negro National League in 1922
As an active member of American Friends Service Committee, she made 210 between September 1927 to September 1928 public appearances to nearly 40,000 people addressing "having people of other racial groups understand the humanness of the Negro wherever he is found."
Since its construction in 1929 as a Rosenwald School and before the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957, Dunbar was the site of the Negro School of Industrial Arts, the Paul Laurence Dunbar Junior and Senior High School (the city's "black school", as opposed to Little Rock Central, which was for white students), and Dunbar Junior College.
Singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky memorialized Klep's time in the Negro leagues in a song entitled, The Ballad Of Eddie Klepp.
Her players traveled in an air-conditioned Flxible Clipper bus, considered extravagant for the Negro leagues.
Booker T. Washington in Story of the Negro (1909) recognized him as having produced more patents than any other black inventor up to that time.
Teamed with Ted Strong and Cool Papa Bell, they formed what is considered the best outfield in the Negro Leagues.
Considered among the better presentations staged at the theater were: Princess Brambilla (1920), Phèdre and Giroflé-Girofla (1922), Desire Under the Elms (1926), Day and Night (1926), The Negro (1929), The Beggars' Opera (1930) and Vishnevsky's An Optimistic Tragedy (1933).
Explorer and artist Roland Stevenson found ruins north of the Negro River in the Uaupés basin that are believed to be the remnants of the Nhamini-wi.
She has also performed with Stew of The Negro Problem, Wisely, and lent her vocal tracks to The Push Stars’ record, Paint the Town (33rd St. Records).
The Negro World also played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance (or Jazz Age) of the 1920s.
Publications include: My Own Harlem (1998); So, You Want to be Pro (2000), "We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance" in Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box (2004); reviews in Hampton University's International Review of African American Art related to the work of artists Kadir Nelson and Hale Woodruff.
The Texas Interscholastic League of Colored Schools (TILCS) was formed in 1920 by the Colored Teachers State Association of Texas and the Negro School Division of the State Department of Education.
Gee's brother, Tom, also played in the Negro Leagues, and was Rich's teammate with the Giants in 1925 and 1926.
He also performed in the Negro Ensemble Company's productions of Manhattan Made Me, Sons & Fathers of Sons, A Soldier's Play and Colored People's Time.
In February 1994, Stanley Glenn and several other players from the Negro Leagues were honored by Vice-President Al Gore at the White House.
The Negro Digest (later renamed Black World) was a popular African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.
Posnanski, a former baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and the The Kansas City Star accompanied O'Neil on a 2006 cross-country journey to raise awareness of the Negro Leagues.
Gee's brother, Rich, also played in the Negro Leagues, and was Tom's teammate with the Giants in 1925 and 1926.
Pittman went on to become the first African American to win a federal commission for the Negro building at the national Tercentennial Exposition at Jamestown, Virginia.