"Jackie Robinson's ... it often is a leader. Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the military and seven years before the Supreme Court ...

Facing racism and discrimination everywhere, Robinson refused to give in, defying Jim Crow segregation in Pasadena and, as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, standing up for his rights when ...

Jim Becker, a long time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for ...

Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... is a leader. Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the military and seven ...