“The Negro should be accepted in baseball and not grudgingly but wholeheartedly,”

 

“The Negro has the right to compete in sports and who’s to say they can not?”                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

“No white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man. In my book, that goes not just for baseball but for all walks of life.”

 

a. Martin Luther King

b. Jackie Robinson

c. Barack Obama

d. Branch Rickey

e. Calvin Griffith

f. Ty Cobb

This guy.

Interesting, had never heard that before.  Sadly, I don't know if this story will catch on as it doesn't reflect the views many have nowadays of U.S. history which apparently resembled a Quentin Tarantino movie.

 

Interesting, had never heard that before.  Sadly, I don't know if this story will catch on as it doesn't reflect the views many have nowadays of U.S. history which apparently resembled a Quentin Tarantino movie.

 

It does call into question the veracity of some of Ken Burns' level of historical scholarship.