The Fourteenth Amendment
"14th Amendment Amendment XIVSection 1.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state where in they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
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The Fourteenth Amendment played a huge part in ending segregation of baseball players. The amendment clearly states that every citizen of the United States shall have equal protection under the law . It also indicates that no state can enforce a law that abridges the privileges of a citizen. The fact that African Americans were not allowed to play with white baseball players would later be interpreted as a violation of this amendment. African Americans had the right to play with white baseball players; they had responsibility to play with white baseball players to show that they were just as capable as their white counterparts.
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