Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to ... working towards economic empowerment for blacks. But as the civil rights movement he had once seemed to embody became more militant, its ...
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 ...
Because state Democratic parties held a lock on the political process in the South, baseball great Jackie Robinson and ... a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching ...
After a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States.
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