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Baseball’s Larry Doby: #2 but first-class all the way home
April 17, 2018Ask even the most casual baseball fan who the first African American to play in the major leagues was and they'll say "Jackie Robinson." Ask them who the second was and you'll probably get a blank...
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The end of Jim Crow baseball and the rise of Jim Crow football
April 16, 2018Seventy-one years ago, the Daily Worker exposed the “Crimes of the Big Leagues.” Today, with the case of Colin Kaepernick, it's the Crimes of the National Football League.
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Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947
April 16, 2018"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...
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Progressive Change conference sessions teach candidates how to run campaigns
April 16, 2018It takes more than a mound of money to win an election, as 450 progressive candidates learned in seminars sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
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Charges dropped against railroad for Lac-Mégantic catastrophe
April 16, 2018This was the story not of careless, lazy workers but of a railroad carrying hazardous cargo that cut corners on safety and maintenance wherever it could.
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