Found 2 collections related to Negro leagues

Quincy Troupe (born 1939) is a poet, author, and editor, perhaps best known for co-writing Miles: The Autobiography (1989) with the influential jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. His father, Quincy Trouppe, Sr., was an all-star catcher in Negro league baseball. The Quincy Troupe papers, dating from 1915 to 2008, mainly document Troupe's career from the mid-1970s to 2008. They also hold the scrapbooks of Quincy Trouppe, Sr. less

The Sports collection, compiled by staff of the Schomburg Center, depicts some aspects of African-American participation in sporting events and athletic competition, mainly from the 1940s to the mid-1980s. The collection includes both original photographic prints and reproductions. less