Oral Histories
Baseball, Race, and Los Angeles: An Oral History of Negro Leaguers of Southern California
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Abstract:
- This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrated here. The series aims for a better understanding of the important role that Southern California played in the racial politics of baseball and that baseball played for African Americans in Los Angeles.