Date of Award

5-1994

Document Type

Thesis

Department

English

First Advisor

Darnell Williams

Second Advisor

Currie Ballard

Third Advisor

Ronald Keys

Abstract

This study hopes to fill in some of the gaps in the history of the Negro Leagues. More importantly though, this research is successful only if the readers can come away with a true sense of what the ballplayers of the era felt and why they played while enduring racism and humiliation.

This study was conducted to pull together the previously written facts and history of the Negro Leagues with obscure oral history and data found through interviews, videotapes, articles, and books from and about those who played and lived during the era.

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