Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major LeaguerUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1995 - Всего страниц: 157 Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. But Walker is more than a footnote: his life demonstrates both the devastation of racism and the role of baseball as a symbol of the nation. Walker achieved college baseball stardom while he was a student at Oberlin College in the 1880s. As Walker's athletic ability earned success on the playing field, racial attitudes were hardening and segregation was becoming the pattern of American society, both on the field and off. Teammates as well as opponents harassed him; Cap Anson, the Chicago White Stockings star, is credited with driving Walker and the few other blacks in the major leagues out of the game but could not have done so alone. Walker's life was defined as much by the fact that he was part white as it was by his black heritage. His attempts to reconcile his Anglo and African aspects left him in glorious disarray. Although acquitted of a murder on the grounds of self-defense, he eventually served time in prison on a federal mail robbery conviction. A gifted athlete, an inventor, a civil rights activist, an author, and an entrepreneur, Walker lived precariously along the fault lines of America's racial dilemma. He died in 1924 after a life of thwarted ambition and talent, frustrated by both the American dream and the national pastime. |
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... decade the determination of whites to merge scientific race theory , economic practicality , and a swelter of amorphous fears into a solid barrier between themselves and Negroes came to fruition . The results would be more visibly ...
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... decades of failed dreams and hopeless- ness . But most humans eventually yield to the formlessness of reality , become ... decade . The best path for those who wish to 126 partake in the ongoing discovery of irony and myth in Fleet ...
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List of Illustrations ix | |
Early Mosaic 1 | |
Into the Fire 26 | |
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