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Orlando monument commemorates South's first integrated Little League baseball game

Different worlds came together in a historic moment in Orlando in August 1955 when the Pensacola Jaycees, an all-Black Little League team, took on the all-white Orlando Kiwanis on their home turf at Optimist Park next to Lake Lorna Doone. It was the first known integrated Little League game in the South. ....

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Orlando commemorates South's first interracial Little League game

A new monument in Orlando’s Lorna Doone Park commemorates a milestone in American race relations, a significant step that, in 1955, didn't seem like that big of a deal to a bunch of 12-year-olds. ....

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