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Box 02

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Mayor LaGuardia's Committee on Unity - correspondence, articles, 1945 January-August

 File — Box: 02, Folder: 01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the integration of baseball and the ending of Jim Crow segregation. It includes correspondence between Kenesaw Landis, Major League Baseball executives and owners, and Negro American League and Negro National League executives. There is also correspondence from writers and fans wanting an end to segregation in baseball. It includes organizational minutes, a mayor's committee report, letters from the public endorsing...
Dates: 1945 January-August

Mayor's Committee on Baseball - correspondence, report, info on Dan W. Dodson, 1945-1980

 File — Box: 02, Folder: 02
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the integration of baseball and the ending of Jim Crow segregation. It includes correspondence between Kenesaw Landis, Major League Baseball executives and owners, and Negro American League and Negro National League executives. There is also correspondence from writers and fans wanting an end to segregation in baseball. It includes organizational minutes, a mayor's committee report, letters from the public endorsing...
Dates: 1945-1980