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The Negro Leagues were baseball leagues for African Americans. These leagues started in the 1880s because African Americans were not allowed into the major leagues. Some of the best players in the Negro Leagues were Satchel Paige, Oscar Charleston, Josh Gibson, and John Henry Lloyd. In 1945 Jackie Robinson was the first African American to join the major leagues in the 20th century. By the 1960s the Negro Leagues had broken up.

Negro Leagues Media

• Octavius Catto.jpg

  Octavius Catto, black baseball pioneer

• 1885 Keokuk, Iowa baseball team featuring Bud Fowler.jpg

  Bud Fowler, the first professional black baseball player with one of his teams, Western of Keokuk, Iowa

• Moses Fleetwood Walker.jpg

  Moses Fleetwood Walker, possibly the first African-American major league baseball player

• ChiUnionGiants 1905.jpg

  Chicago Union Giants in 1905

• 1924 Negro League World Series.jpg

  The two opposing teams line up at the 1924 Colored World Series.