by MikellRobert | Nov 30, 2020 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a top-ranked east coast Negro League team, originally formed in 1905 by John Wilson Connor, owner of the Brooklyn Royal Cafe, and managed by William Parker. They were organized as a “barnstorming club,” meaning they traveled through...
by HornsbyAlton | Nov 25, 2020 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1910 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew “Rube” Foster, known as the father of the Negro League Baseball. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants...
by HornsbyAlton | Nov 25, 2020 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Chicago Unions was an independent team formed in 1887 and one of the first professional Black baseball teams to last more than a year prior to the Negro Leagues era beginning in 1920. In 1887, before the start of the 1888 baseball season, William S. Peters joined...
by FikesRobert | Nov 25, 2020 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Cuban Giants were the first African American professional baseball club. The Giants were formed in 1885 at the Argyle Hotel, a summer resort located in Babylon, New York. The team took its name because it played in Cuba during the winter of 1885-1886 and the...
by HornsbyAlton | Nov 20, 2020 | African American History, People
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is the senior pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, once led by Reverends Martin Luther King Sr., and Martin Luther King Jr, in Atlanta, Georgia. On January 5, 2021 he made history by becoming the first African American elected to...
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