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This is a list of sports desegregation firsts. Within each section, the entries are in chronological order by achievement. Within each section, the entries are in chronological order by achievement. Major League Baseball
The color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball excluded players of black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947 (with a few notable exceptions in the 19th century before the line was firmly established).
This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American civil rights movement, both before and after the US Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, particularly desegregation of the school systems and the military. Racial integration of society was a closely related goal.
FRISCO, Texas — LeBron James questioned this week why he wasn’t asked about a 65-year-old photo of Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones.. At 14 years old, Jones attended a 1957 desegregation ...
In the early 1960s, Atlanta was on the cusp of desegregation and investment was starting to flow in. The city’s leaders in arts dreamed of elevating the High Museum of Art into a world-class ...
Upon desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s, the added complexity of racial tensions to these gender dynamics further acted as fuel to complicate public swimming in the United States. Black men, in particular, faced compounding barriers to swimming due to the intersection of racial and gender-based stereotypes. Societal ideas about the hyper ...
The House passed the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," which could change Title IX protections and ensure only people assigned female at birth participate in women and girls athletics ...
First African American to initiate the concept of free agency. He refused to accept a trade following the 1969 season, ultimately appealing his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The trend of free agency expanded across the entire landscape of professional sports for all races and all cultures: Curt Flood (St. Louis Cardinals) [Note 3]