He helped Washington create the National Negro Business League.

Many statistics are also available from outside of Major League Baseball, from leagues such as the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players and the Negro Leagues.

Rube Foster, a former ballplayer, founded the Negro National League in 1920.

* 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Treehotel near Piteå, Sweden, the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica ; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya ; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon ; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

* 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.

* 1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Usher boards and Women's Day committees of various religious congregations large and small, and even public service and social welfare organizations such as the National Council of Negro Women ( NCNW ) have produced cookbooks to fund their operations and charitable enterprises.

* May 2 – The first game of Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

* Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women.

* January 20-The U. S .- based National Negro Network is established with forty-six member radio stations.

Washington also helped with the Progressive Era by forming the National Negro Business League.

In an effort to inspire the " commercial, agricultural, educational, and industrial advancement " of African Americans, Washington founded the National Negro Business League ( NNBL ) in 1900.

The success of the Cubans led to the creation of the first recognized " Negro league " in 1887 – the National Colored Base Ball League.

† The Negro Southern League was considered a de facto major league in 1932 because it was the only league to play a full season schedule, and many players ( and a few teams ) from the original Negro National League played there.

A new Negro National League was established in traditionally " major " cities for 1933, also attracting the elite players and teams from the NSL.

Effa Manley, co-owner ( with her husband Abe Manley ) and business manager of the Newark Eagles ( New Jersey ) club in Negro National League, is the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In February, he began working with the National Negro Congress, and in April he chaired the South Side Writers ' Group, whose membership included Arna Bontemps and Margaret Walker.

* 1939 – the New York Cubans of the Negro National League play their home games on a baseball diamond on the Island, known as the 59th Street Sandlot.

" The National Negro Congress even went as far as to set up picket lines in theaters in the big cities where the film played, with its protesters holding signs that read " Song of the South is an insult to the Negro people " and, lampooning " Jingle Bells ," chanted: " Disney tells, Disney tells / lies about the South.

The team became affiliated with the American Negro League in 1929, and continued in the Negro National League in 1932, when it folded as a professional team.

From 1942 to 1948, the Negro League World Series was revived.

This was the golden era of Negro League baseball, a time when it produced some of its greatest stars.

Under Veeck's leadership, one of Cleveland's most significant achievements was breaking the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, formerly a player for the Negro League's Newark Eagles in, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.

In 1948, needing pitching for the stretch run of the pennant race, Veeck turned to the Negro League again and signed pitching great Satchel Paige amid much controversy.

* 1885 – Abe Manley, Negro League Baseball owner ( d. 1952 )

* 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

After playing with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League and in the minor leagues, Aaron started his major league career in 1954.

In his final season, he was the last Negro League baseball player on a major league roster.

Aaron's minor league career began on November 20, 1951, when baseball scout Ed Scott signed Aaron to a contract on behalf of the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League.

After relocating to Indianapolis, Indiana, eighteen-year-old Aaron helped the Indianapolis Clowns win the 1952 Negro League World Series.

The " Royals " name may also have been selected as a respectful recognition of the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues and a nod to the Kansas City Blues franchises of the Western League and American Association.

Lee, a longtime fan of baseball, donated 200 baseballs signed by famous Negro League players, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Josh Gibson, to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in June 2008.

This powerful and unprecedented statement from the Hall of Fame podium was " a first crack in the door that ultimately would open and include Paige and Gibson and other Negro League stars in the shrine.

* Pan-Africanist supporters of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League ( UNIA-ACL ) are repressed by colonial powers in Africa.

** Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Negro League.

The Negro faces as much, if not more, difficulty in fitting himself into an urban economy as he did in an agrarian one.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas and said that he did not play with many white children other than his siblings, until he was seven or eight years old.

Sherman was not an abolitionist before the war and, like others of his time and background, he did not believe in " Negro equality.

She did not join the Negro Actors Guild until 1947, very late in her career.

Two major sources of eyewitness testimony about the Boston Massacre, both published in 1770, did not refer to Attucks as a " Negro ," or " black " man ; it appeared that Bostonians accepted him as mixed race.

I can truthfully say that no efforts were spared in the treatment of Drew, and, contrary to popular myth, the fact that he was a Negro did not in any way limit the care that was given to him.

Unlike the Brooklyn Dodgers ' Branch Rickey who in 1945 declined to pay for the purchasing rights of Robinson with the Kansas City Monarchs, and other owners and general managers in later seasons who felt Negro leagues ' owners did not have to be compensated for luring away their talent, Veeck was " determined to buy Doby's contract from the Eagles.

:" Bill Veeck did the Negro race no favor when he signed Larry Doby to a Cleveland contract.

* Whereas the original U. S. Constitution did not use the word slavery or the term " Negro Slaves ", but " Person held to Service or Labour " which included whites in indentured servitude, the Confederate Constitution addresses the legality of slavery directly and by name.

However, his admiration of the Zulus did not extend to other African peoples ; rather, he shared many of the racist assumptions that underlay contemporary Victorian politics and philosophy, such as those expressed by James Hunt, the President of the Anthropological Society of London: " the Negro is inferior intellectually to the European ... can only be humanised and civilised by Europeans.

He instructed them, " Where the woman charged to have been raped is white, there is a strong presumption under the law that she will not and did not yield voluntarily to intercourse with the defendant, a Negro.

" If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life ," she wrote.

In the latter domain the Federal Music Project did notable studies on cowboy, Creole and " Negro " music.

In November 2005, Miñoso's name was placed on a special ballot of Negro League players to be voted upon by a special committee of Negro Leagues historians and scholars, though he did not win induction.

In the war with Morocco he did such good service at Los Castillejos or Marabout, Cabo Negro, Guad al Gelu and Campamento in 1860 that he was made marqués de los Castillejos and a Grandee of Spain.

The Grays did join the American Negro League in 1929, but that league lasted only one season.

The league did not organize for the 1930 season, and it would not be until 1933 that an eastern Negro league would last for a full season.

As she wrote in " My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience ," published in Negro Digest in 1946, there was an incident where a racist decided that they did not want her on a beach.

I imagine there was titillation involved, too: ‘ Tell us what it's like to be a slave .’ The same continued into the 20th century: ‘ Tell us what it's like to be a Negro .’ ‘ Up From Slavery ,’ by Booker T. Washington, arrived on the scene, but Richard Wright's " Black Boy " really did the trick.

He did contribute to the UNIA ’ s 1920 “ Declaration of the Negro Peoples of the World

He did work on various documentary films such as History of the American Negro and Five.