Roberto Clemente Segregation

When Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente first come to the Brooklyn Dodgers’ training camp in Florida, he found he was the youngest player on the team. He is also the only Puerto Rican. Only one other player spoke Spanish. He encounter racism and segregation for the first time. Being dark-skinned, he was treated like a black person. From 1870s until the 1960s, many states have laws that segregated, or separated, blacks from whites. Some cities and states requires blacks to sit in separate sections of theaters or buses or to go to all-black schools, for example. Because of his skin tone, the segregation laws keeped him out of "whites-only" establishments. But in Puerto Rico, there been no segregation. Clemente suddenly face social