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A stable, eight-team loop, its member teams typically included the Atlanta Crackers , Birmingham Barons , Chattanooga Lookouts , Little Rock Travelers , Memphis Chicks , Nashville Vols , and New Orleans Pelicans . Either the Knoxville Smokies , Mobile Bears , or Shreveport Sports typically comprised the eighth club. After Jackie Robinson broke the Color Barrier in 1946 with the Montreal Royals of the International League , the Southern Association held true to the Jim Crow segregation laws of the time and never permitted an African-American to play in the circuit. A boycott led by Civil Rights leaders and the encroachment of television contributed to the Association's demise in 1961. The current AA Southern League is not descended from the Southern Association; the SL came into existence in 1964 as the successor to the original South Atlantic League . |