amount of tension between blacks and whites. The southern whites were bitter toward the

loss of their slaves, and although the north fought for the slaves' freedom, they did not

want them to have equal priveledges. As a result of this, "segregation" was born.

Segregation is the seperation of two different groups, in this case, black and white people.

Blacks and whites were separated in many ways such as having different bathrooms and

drinking fountains and even schools and churches.

Baseball is usually referred to as "the national pastime". The word "nation" is

defined as a people, usually inhabitants of a specific territory, who share common customs.

One would assume that this means everyone was included, but in reality, they were not.

When the Major Leagues formed, all of the players were white, European

descendants. The National Association of Baseball Players would not allow any teams,

which consisted of one or more Negro players, to join.

All of these newly freed former slaves wanted to play baseball, but were prevented

from doing so, against white teams. So they played each other. Commonly referred as

Hilldales beat the Monarchs in best out of 9 series, winning 5-1 (Bruce 57). This was a

In 1934, the Philadelphia Stars joined as an expansion team into the Negro

consisted of six teams including the Hilldales. Bolden enriched the Hilldales by signing

offer. Because of this, the Hilldales ended up playing mostly white teams (Ribowsky

toward the end of the team. Bolden left the team, and three members of the Hilldale

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