The Kings of Casino Park : Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932.
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the & ldquo;lynch law center of Louisiana. & rdquo; race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the w...
| Основен автор: | Aiello, Thomas. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2011.
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Kings of Casino Park : Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932. |
| Резюме: |
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the & ldquo;lynch law center of Louisiana. & rdquo; race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class & mdash;a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of black and white fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see the p. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780817385682 0817385681 9780817317423 0817317422 |