“The mistreatment of black athletes throughout America’s History”
Throughout the early years of America’s Sports History, there was always a constant that you would see throughout the 3 major professional sports which at the time were football, basketball, and baseball, they were always segregated. Black people were never seen in these major leagues they were placed in their own separate league's things like the Negro Leagues for baseball and The Harlem Globetrotters for basketball. These types of leagues were made to keep African Americans out of the all-white professional leagues.
As Howard Bryant said in his book The Heritage. “The Negro Leagues served as their justification for the exclusion of blacks from
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And became the first league to integrate with black players. While this did come with a lot of backlashes Jackie performed above and beyond in his MLB career and quieted the rowdy crowds that disliked him. Through the success of Jackie other teams in baseball took chances and signed more black players to their teams. Through the somewhat successful integration of baseball other sports took chances and signed and took on more black talents. Even the Olympic teams started taking more black …show more content…
They were protesting the racial injustice that was still taking part in American Culture. This event was 4 years after the Civil Rights act which was supposed to slowly stop all the injustices black people faced. Steven Waller also talks about this experience saying “A significant number of Black athletes have felt they had to negotiate the often complex issues of using their elite athlete status to represent a country in which they were underserved and discriminated against due to their minority status. The participation of Black athletes in the Olympic Games has often revealed and mirrored inequalities in society as a