What Were the Negro Leagues?

by Varian Johnson

Book Overview

This baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history of baseball.

In America during the early twentieth century, no part was safe from segregation, not even the country's national pastime, baseball. Despite their exodus from the Major Leagues because of the color of their skin, African American men still found a way to participate in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524789984
• ISBN13: 9781524789985
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Workshop
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7