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

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 ...

But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... the Army and wound up a second lieutenant. At his court-martial for not moving to the back of the bus, his lawyer said Robinson ...

Becker joined the AP in 1946 fresh out of the Army when he walked into the wire service’s New York headquarters without an appointment and was hired to start the next day. He watched Robinson ...

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.

He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first ... Brown was discharged from the Army in 1947, reported to the Dodgers' spring training ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big ... AP in 1946 fresh out of the Army when he walked into the wire service’s New York headquarters ...