This video is the last part in my series on the negro leagues and focuses on Baseball Integration and demise of the Negro league.
In 1945, the Jim Crow policies of baseball changed forever when Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson, was in the Negro League playing for the Kansas City Monarchs agreed to a contract that would bring Robinson into the major leagues in 1947.
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Sources:
A complete history of the Negro leagues, 1884 to 1955
by Mark Ribowsky - https://amzn.to/368L7V3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_league_baseball
https://www.history.com/topics/sports/negro-league-baseball