The Road to Integration

Bob Kendrick takes an in-depth look at the history of baseball's segregation, and the forces who paved the way for Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier.

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Interviews with Bill Veeck, Happy Chandler, Shirley Povich, Monte Irvin, and Calvin Griffith courtesy of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, at the University of Kentucky. For more information, visit https://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org

Interview with Sam Lacy courtesy of the SABR Oral History Collection - https://sabr.org/

Lester Rodney selections from “Crime of the Big Leagues” produced by Tomorrow Media and Rough House

 

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