URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94081959

Variants

• Walker, Fleet, 1856-1924

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n94081959

Identifies RWO

• https://isni.org/isni/0000000031711594

• Birth Date

  1856-10-07

• Death Date

  1924-05-11

• Birth Place

  Mount Pleasant (Jefferson County, Ohio)

• Field Of Activity

  • Field Of Activity:Catching (Baseball)

• Field Of Activity

  • Field Of Activity:African Americans--Civil rights

• Occupation

  • Occupation:Catchers (Baseball)

• Occupation

  • Occupation:Civil rights workers

• Associated Language

  English

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• http://viaf.org/en/viaf/LC%7Cn%20%2094081959

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Moses Fleetwood WalkerLabel from public data source Wikidata
• Walker, Moses Fleetwood, 1856-1924
• Walker, Moses Fleetwood, b 1858

Sources

• found:Fleet Walker's divided heart, c1995:CIP t.p. (baseball's 1st Black major leaguer) galley (Moses Fleetwood Walker) bk. p. 124 (d. 5-11-24)
• found:LC manual cat.(hdg.: Walker, Moses Fleetwood, 1858- )
• found:Biography in context WWW site, viewed Sept. 21, 2015(Fleet Walker; b. Moses Fleetwood Walker, Oct. 7, 1856, Mount Pleasant, Ohio; d. May 11, 1924, Cleveland; baseball catcher, inventor, businessman, author, and anti-racism activist, who in 1884 was the first and last African American to play Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947)

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF PersonalName
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Change Notes

• 1994-08-25:new
• 2025-08-04:revised

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