Celebrate the Negro League's baseball museum's pitch for the future.

With your donation, you can help bring Buck O'Neill's vision to life,

with the construction of the Buck O'Neill Education and Research Center,

as well as the brand new Negro Leagues baseball museum

on the historic site of the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, where the Negro National League was founded in 1920.

We're building the nation's only Negro Leagues campus, an international hub for Negro Leagues and social history.

Yes, a transformative complex so that future generations will be inspired by those who dared to dream.

To donate, visit nlbm.com slash pitch for the future.

There was a famous man, famous black man, sat at my dinner table one night, and here's what he said to me.

This man's name happened to be Martin Luther King Jr.

He said, Don, you and Jack and Roy will never know how easy you made it for me to do my job.

Do what you men did on the baseball field.

Imagine that.

At that time, 1968, this is 24 days before Martin died in Memphis.

24 days he's at my dinner table.

Recorded here at the Negro League's Baseball Museum,

here's a conversation with former Negro leaguer and former Dodger Lou Johnson talking to his good friend and fellow Dodger teammate, Don

Newcomb.

I was born and raised in New Jersey, born June 14, 1926, and was raised in New Jersey. My father had three other sons, and the daughter, the daughter passed away when she was eight years old, my sister, Dali. And we were all family. My father was a chauffeur. He drove for the same family in New Jersey for 35 years. And we moved from one, I call the Pill of the Post because the man that my dad worked for was in the real estate business. And a part of it was during the Depression. And they had to move and he lost money and he had a hard time keeping my dad as an employee.

And we moved from one town in New Jersey to another.

And every time they moved, the white family, we, the black family, had to move also because my dad had to be near where he worked, where his job was.

And we moved from town to town.

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