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The NFL After World War II
In the mid thirties, supposedly after George Preston Marshall comes into the league as owner of the Boston Braves that became the Boston Redskins. At his behest, they adopt the same policy as Major League Baseball and completely kicked blacks out of the league. And for the Redskins, not until 1961, the Redskins commensurate with keeping that name for as long as they did, they were very, very, very late to integrate the team. I think they had some really big fan base in the south and there weren't a lot of NFL teams at that point in the south.