A crusading journalist's last campaign : typescript, 2007, June : Wendell Smith and the desegregation of baseball's spring training / Brian Carroll. 2007.

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A crusading journalist's last campaign : typescript, 2007, June : Wendell Smith and the desegregation of baseball's spring training / Brian Carroll. 2007.

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Wendell Smith campaigned, through the pages of the Chicago American, for the end of segregation in baseball's spring training states of Florida and Arizona. Baseball's color barrier had been broken in 1947, but segregation and discrimination still existed during spring training through the early 1960s.

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Smith, Wendell, 1914-1972

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Wendell Smith (1914-1972) was a prominent sportswriter with the Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper, and Chicago's American. He was one of the leading critics of segregation in major league baseball. He worked through his sports columns and directly with baseball officials to end segregation with the signing of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1993, he was honored posthumously by the Baseball Writers Association of American with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for life-time...

Carroll, Brian, 1965-

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