Integrated Baseball
Segregated baseball had been a thing for about sixty years, and blacks were not allowed to play with whites in the Major or Minor Leagues. When Jackie Robinson left for the Majors after one year playing in the Negro League, many other African Americans followed in his footsteps. When Jackie left, that's when the Negro League began to disintegrate. As more and more talented black baseball players left the league, the Negros was nearly abolished. Most African American baseball players turned out to be better and more athletic than white players, which proves that the color of their skin does not affect their athleticism. Thanks to people such as Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr., and everyone in between, we have been influenced that just because of skin color, it doesn't mean that we are different. We've also been influenced that the athleticism of black players can be just the same as white players. Color of skin does not make us athletically different, or different at all for that matter. Around 1950, the Negro League disappeared, and integrated baseball was the norm. Nowadays, we think nothing of integrated baseball. We just call it baseball. It's as normal as bad cafeteria food or a new Seth Rogen movie.