A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers. On April ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2010. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers. Zeenut ...

A search of New Orleans area newspaper archives revealed that his baseball journeys took him to New Orleans ... At age 19, Paige began his professional career in 1926 with the Chattanooga Black ...

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Even after she returned home to Philadelphia, married and started a family further north, she continued depicting the quiet terrors — and triumphs — of being Black in America. Her work helped ...