"Historic Jim Crow Section"

From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through Jim Crow laws, named after a black character in minstrel shows. Jim Crow came to personify a system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States, designed to rob blacks of their civil rights and prevent them from mingling with whites in public places. On March 17, 1946, Jackie Robinson stepped onto this ball field and changed views and attitudes around the world about Negroes in professional baseball. The former Jim Crow section of the City Island Ballpark was overflowing that day, and black American veterans, without incident, integrated the white stands.

Daytona Beach, Florida · United States