Oscar Charleston and U.S. - Numbers, Names, Dates and Places - Page 3© Thomas James Martin
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Headline from a CNN news story filed August 3, 1999:
Tulsa panel seeks truth from 1921 race riot
Beulah Smith and Kenny Booker live through one of the worst race riots in U.S. history in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The rarely mentioned event officially took dozens of African-American lives. Some claim that the death toll was in the hundreds; some even put the dead in the thousands. The riot started after a black man was accused of raping a white woman, and a mob called for his lynching. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution of 4/28/02: "[In 1921] Congress debates anti-lynching bills. The NAACP lobbies for federal legislation for two decades, but never succeeds because of the opposition of Southern senators." 1922
On November 27, 1922, Charleston marries Jane B. Howard from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On May 5 of 1922 construction begins on Yankee Stadium in New York City. It is called then as now "The House That Ruth Built," after the wealth that the "Babe" brought to the Yankees. 1925
He leads the Eastern Colored League with a .430 batting average. He spends four years with the Harrisburg Giants as a player/manager. Malcolm X is born on May 19 in Omaha, Nebraska. Ford Motor Company begins production of the pick-up truck 1930
Oscar joins the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh for the 1930-31 seasons. The Grays are considered one of the greatest teams of all time. The roster includes such legendary stars and future hall-of-famers as Smokey Joe Williams, Vic Harris, George Scales, Josh Gibson and Judy Johnson The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching organizes in Atlanta. The region wide group circulates anti-lynching petitions and pressures sheriffs to protect prisoners. Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic . 1932
Past his prime though still one of the best players in the league, Oscar switches from the outfield to first base. He plays for the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936 as a player/manager. He continues successfully managing teams until his death. FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) wins the presidential election on a platform of offering a "New Deal" for all Americans as the Great Depression continue to impoverish millions of Americans. By 1932 roughly half of the black workers in New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Detroit, Michigan, were without jobs.
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong tours Europe for the first time. 1954
On October 6, Oscar Charleston falls down a flight of steps in Philadelphia and later dies of a stroke.
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