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Working the Quincy Mill: African American Lumber Mill Workers in Northern California, 1926-1955
Economic opportunity motivated millions of early 20th Century African Americans to leave the segregated South.  Most of the people of the Great Migration found better jobs and better pay in northern factories in World War I and western defense industries in World War II.  However, at least a few
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World Series: Atlanta, Land of the Braves - Atlanta Tribune
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Trevor Bauer is scheduled to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium for the first time tonight when they begin a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies. The post Bauer Set To Pitch For Dodgers at Dodger Stadium For First Time appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
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Players Coalition asks Congress to support bill ending police immunity
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Black Baseball in Minnesota: The Pipestone Black Sox
In the following article historian Bruce A. Glasrud follows the exploits of an all black baseball team in the southwestern Minnesota town of Pipestone in the 1920s which at the time had virtually no black residents.  Nonetheless the team competed with other white, all-black, and racially integrated
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Angels' Shohei Ohtani ties MLB lead with 26th home run in first at-bat at Yankee Stadium news -The Black Chronicle
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