Sentence examples for great negro from inspiring English sources

He meets his old nemesis near the end, in a song called "Cool Papa Bell," named for the great Negro League center fielder.

"I hope," he said, "that Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson somehow will be inducted here as symbols of the great Negro players who are not here because they were not given a chance".

No single image summed up the change between Ruth's time and Aaron's so much as that of the great Negro league legend Cool Papa Bell holding back tears after Aaron rounded the bases.

Tales of Hamilton's incredible speed are collected and passed around the lower levels of the game the way folks used to tell stories of the great Negro leagues speedster Cool Papa Bell, who was said to be so fast he could hit a grounder through the box and be hit by the ball as he slid into second base.

When all is said and done and Négritude has permitted the blacks to "raise relentlessly the great negro cry until the foundations of the world shall tremble" (Césaire's Les armes miraculeuses quoted by Sartre as the last words of Black Orpheus), it will have to be shed "to the profit of the Revolution" (1976, 65) by the only true actor of history which is the proletariat.

He traces the forgotten link between the great Negro baseball stars, including Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, and their Caribbean counterparts touring outside the U.S. in the 1940s.

When my brother and I were growing up in the 1960s, my parents bought the book, "Great Negroes Past and Present".

And, unfortunately, that's not going to be corrected by L.A. radio station KJLH, 102.3 FM — an R&B/urban music station — celebrating Black History Month by broadcasting snippets of biographies about, well, great Negroes past and present.

He went on to become exactly that: the greatest Negro writer of his generation.

Harlem, cited in the 1920's by Alain Locke, the influential black philosopher, writer and critic, as "the greatest Negro community the world has ever known," was by then the locus of African-American intellectual and cultural activity.

Apart from Greater Palawan, which, biogeographically, does not belong to the oceanic region of the Philippines [ 4], there were three major PAICs: Greater Luzon, Greater Negros-Panay, and Greater Mindanao [ 3].