Sturm, James

Satchel Paige : Striking out Jim Crow / by James Sturm & Rich Tommaso with an introduction by Gerald Early - New York : Scholastic , 2007. - 89 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm . - The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents .

Satchel Paige began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him out of the major leagues. But they couldn't stop him from becoming a world-class athlete. This is a fictionalized account of a real-life sports hero.

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Civil Rights Movement--Comic books
1906-1982--Comic books

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