Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

All because Robinson refused to move to the back of a bus. At the time, he was not the Jackie Robinson who broke MLB’s color barrier and the league record for stolen bases.

We look back at how Jackie Robinson handled racial discrimination on the diamond. ... The Montgomery Bus Boycotts were in their ninth month in August 1956. As Robinson noted, ...

As a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, Robinson faced a court martial after refusing an order from a white civilian bus driver to move to the back of a military bus ...

On Feb. 28, 1946, Jackie Robinson and his wife, Rachel, boarded an American Airlines flight in Los Angeles bound for Daytona Beach, Fla., for spring training. There he would try to prove that he ...

But Jackie Robinson Day, as currently observed by MLB, has none of that bite. ... during which he was court-martialed after he refused to move to the back of an Army bus.

The bus driver, a white civilian, ordered Robinson to move to the back of the bus. Robinson angrily refused, and objected to being called the N word. “I told the driver to stop f—ing with me ...

Jackie and Rachel Robinson, married less than three weeks, waited during the early evening of February 28, 1946, at Los Angeles’ Lockheed Airport to board a plane to go to Daytona Beach, Florida.

In advance of MLB's leaguewide celebration of Jackie Robinson Day on April 15, Dreier spoke with Capital & Main by phone. Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

On January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Twenty-eight years later, on April 15, 1947, he broke the baseball color line.

The story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier is a familiar one. A white businessman, eager to make a splash and bolster business, recruits Robinson to join his organization. They make ...