by
Aiello, Thomas.
Call Number
796.357640973
Publication Date
2011
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In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the & ldquo;lynch law center of Louisiana. & rdquo; race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class & mdash;a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of black and white fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see the p.
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21594.3867
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Federico, Annette, 1960-
Call Number
820.99287 22
Publication Date
2009
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0.1132
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