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100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond
Today, though, the legacy of an anti-KKK law has led to the end of a Black college scholarship.
In the 1920s, the KKK was at the peak of its popularity. The group had more than 4 million members and would often feign as a civic organization, participating in picnics and parades and donating to charities. So, staging a baseball game was a way for it to whitewash, if you will, its well-deserved reputation for bigotry and terror at a time when baseball was by far America’s most popular sport.
The Klan had overcome government efforts dating back to Reconstruction to rein it in, such as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which aimed to enforce the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. That amendment had extended citizenship and equal protection to Black Americans.
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Today, though, the legacy of an anti-KKK law has led to the end of a Black college scholarship.
In the 1920s, the KKK was at the peak of its popularity. The group had more than 4 million members and would often feign as a civic organization, participating in picnics and parades and donating to charities. So, staging a baseball game was a way for it to whitewash, if you will, its well-deserved reputation for bigotry and terror at a time when baseball was by far America’s most popular sport.
The Klan had overcome government efforts dating back to Reconstruction to rein it in, such as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which aimed to enforce the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. That amendment had extended citizenship and equal protection to Black Americans.
100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond
Today, though, the legacy of an anti-KKK law has led to the end of a Black college scholarship.
contrarian.substack.com
Today, 15 November, marks 27 years since the passing of pan-African icon Kwame Ture in Conakry, Guinea. In this clip, Ture dispelled the pernicious myth that socialism is a “white” concept and showed how Africans were discouraged from exploring it. He spoke directly from experience, drawing on his illustrious, decades-long record in the struggle for African liberation worldwide.Ture’s lifelong commitment to pan-Africanism took him from his childhood in a decolonising Trinidad and Tobago to the United States, where he chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and initiated the Black Power movement. Later in life, he relocated to the mother continent, serving as an adviser to visionary Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré and founding the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party.
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