The Impact of the Negro Leagues on Modern Baseball
Updated at 8:49 a.m. ET on July 12, 2023. In July 1918, shortly after American troops achieved their first significant victory in World War I in northern France, W. E. B. Du Bois, the founder of The Crisis, a magazine affiliated with the NAACP, published a thought-provoking editorial. Du Bois, hopeful that African Americans’ involvement …