"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives," Jackie Robinson said not long before he died in 1972.
Robinson served with the Army during World War II before famously breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier and served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, is a central figure in baseball and American civil rights history.
The Department of Defense scrambled last week to restore webpages about civil rights icon Jackie Robinson and the Tuskegee Airmen after they were removed. The Pentagon has said those pages were ...
A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson's military service was restored Wednesday after it was missing earlier in the day. A Department of Defense ...
Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson ... should fight for equal rights. After taking the abuse without retaliation for a while, Robinson spoke out. He demanded respect from his ...
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The U.S. Naval Academy faces backlash for flagging Jackie Robinson’s biography amid a DEI policy shift, sparking concerns.
On opening day for Major League Baseball, our columnist looks at another side of Jackie Robinson’s legacy: statesman and ...