Earliest Hilldale Team Picture, Darby, Pa.

Earliest Hilldale Team Picture, Darby, Pa.

Ed Bolden and the Hilldale Dasies

Under the leadership of postal worker Ed Bolden, a Darby boys club team became the Hilldale Daisies. Winners of Eastern Colored League pennants in 1923-25, the Hilldale club would lose to the Kansas City Monarchs, five games to four, in the first Negro League World Series in 1924.

William Cash/Lloyd Thompson Collection - Courtesy of The African American Museum in Philadelphia

WCU, HIS 601/HON 451 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Spring 2016

c. 1923

Michael Lewis

Courtesy of the African American Museum in Philadelphia

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Still Image