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At one time, baseball in the United States was segregated. The Blacks played with the Negro Leagues! Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 19...
A " shotgun house " is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than about 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War (1861–65) through the 1920s. Alternate names include "shotgun shack", "shotgun hut", "shotgun cotta...
Disclaimer: This Project is not endorsed by the Negro Southern League Museum or the Negro National Museum. I wish to thank them for the information for without it this and other projects would not be possible. Note: This project is for genealogical and educational purposes. Also, some terms, nicknames and aka may be offensive to some. Moreover, we may never know why the person was given his ni...