"Can U Read, Judge Landis?"
TRUTH, LIES & ALIBIS: Was Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis baseball's gatekeeper of segregation? Was he the "Leader of the Resistance" or a hostage to social norms? What is Landis's true legacy to our National Pastime? Read Lester's perspective of how the "Gentlemen's Agreement" kept African Americans out of Major League baseball, from 1885 to 1946, more than 60 years.
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"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke, (1729-1797), Irish philosopher.
"Racism is a scholarly pursuit, it's taught, it's institutionalized."
- Tony Morrison, Nobel prize winning author
"The prejudices of race are rapidly disappearing. A week or two ago we chronicled a game between the Pythian (colored) and Olympics (white) clubs of Philadelphia. This affair was a great success, financially and otherwise." - New York Clipper, 1869
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Click HERE to download article.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke, (1729-1797), Irish philosopher.
"Racism is a scholarly pursuit, it's taught, it's institutionalized."
- Tony Morrison, Nobel prize winning author
"The prejudices of race are rapidly disappearing. A week or two ago we chronicled a game between the Pythian (colored) and Olympics (white) clubs of Philadelphia. This affair was a great success, financially and otherwise." - New York Clipper, 1869
Download a Fact Sheet for published books by Mr. Lester.
1827 - Freedom's Journal, the first African American owned newspaper's mission statement; "We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentation in things which concern us dearly."
