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Black homesteaders established their claims under a number of different federal laws. The most significant of these was the Homestead Act of 1862 , a landmark U.S. law that opened ownership of public lands to male citizens (who had never borne arms against the United States), widows, single women, and immigrants pledging to become citizens.
African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation, which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups. The act ...
(Washington) Homestead Grays: 1940‡ Major NNL2 1 — 56 36 20 0 .643 Won pennant outright [21] 1941‡ Major NNL2 1 1st 77 50 25 2 .667 Won NNL split-season playoff (New York Cubans 2) 3–1 [22] 1942‡ Major NNL2 1 — 73 54 17 2 .761 Lost Negro World Series (Kansas City Monarchs) 4–0 Won pennant outright [23] 1943* Major NNL2 1 — 68 53 ...
For ten years, the Blue Ribbons fielded a team every season and played some of the best sandlot teams in the area. In 1910, the managers of the team retired. The players reorganized the team and named themselves the Murdock Grays. In 1912, they became the Homestead Grays, the name they retained for the remainder of the franchise's history.
Homestead Grays – 9, Birmingham Black Barons – 0: Comiskey Park: N/A: 4,940 5: September 28: Homestead Grays – 10, Birmingham Black Barons – 11: Red Bird Stadium: N/A: N/A 6: September 29: Homestead Grays – 8, Birmingham Black Barons – 0: Victory Field: N/A- 7: October 3: Homestead Grays – 0, Birmingham Black Barons – 1 (11 ...
The 1940 Homestead Grays baseball team competed in the Negro National League during the 1940 baseball season. The Grays compiled a 34–19 (.642) record and won the Negro National League championship. [1] The team played its home games at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Vic Harris was the team's manager and left fielder.
Timbuctoo, New York, was a mid-19th century farming community of African-American homesteaders in the remote town of North Elba, New York. [1] It was located in the vicinity of 44°13′N 73°59′W / 44.22°N 73.99°W / 44.22; -73.99 , near today's Lake Placid village (which did not exist then), in the Adirondack Mountains of ...
The 1943 Washington Homestead Grays baseball team represented the Washington Homestead Grays in the Negro National League (NNL) during the 1943 baseball season.After having managed the Grays to five pennants in seven seasons, manager Vic Harris elected to step away from managing to take a job with a plant that relegated him to part-time out-fielding.