American Negro League
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The American Negro League was a short-lived professional Negro league baseball organization that operated in the United States in the late 1920s as part of the broader system of segregated Black baseball.
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Negro league baseball organization
ⓘ
professional baseball league ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | ANL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyWithinNegroLeagues | post–World War I era ⓘ |
| competitionType | professional sports league ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 1929 ⓘ |
| era | Jim Crow era in the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African American sports history
ⓘ
sports ⓘ |
| governingBodyType | baseball league ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
professional
ⓘ
segregated ⓘ short-lived ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | part of the first wave of organized Negro major leagues ⓘ |
| inception | 1929 ⓘ |
| leagueLevel | major Negro league ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 7 ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| operationalPeriod | late 1920s ⓘ |
| partOf |
Negro league baseball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
history of African-American baseball ⓘ |
| playedUnderRulesOf | professional baseball rules ⓘ |
| precededBy | Eastern Colored League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryAudience | African American communities ⓘ |
| racialSegregationContext | segregated Black baseball ⓘ |
| regionServed | Eastern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Eastern Colored League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.