Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972)
When Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, he was both hailed as a hero and vilified as a traitor. So much attention was paid to the ...
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson (1919-1972) was the first African American of the 20th century to play major league baseball.Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, the son of a share...
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Baseball and racism have coexisted in our country for decades, but most people prefer to view these topics separately. Many people have made dramatic impacts upon one or the other of these seemingly ...
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Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these 32-page graphic biographies teach students about historical figures: those who lead us into new territory, pursued scientific discoveries; battled injustice and p...
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Guided by Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people, this series of 64-page biographies focuses on the leaders, scientists, and icons who shaped our world. These people, many from very hu...
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This 16-page Teacher's Resource Guide includes research-based, reproducible activities which extend key reading strategies including decoding, vocabulary skills, activating prior knowledge, fluency...
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A fascinating book on a famous American.This enhanced eBook gives you the freedom to copy and paste the content of each page into the format that fits your needs. You can post lessons on your class...
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Jackie Robinson was a strong and quick athlete. He is known as a great baseball player. Jackie was also a great man. Sadly, when he began to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, people booed him. This bo...
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Jackie Robinson was a strong and quick athlete. He is known as a great baseball player. Jackie was also a great man. Sadly, when he began to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, people booed him. This bo...
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No. 42 was everywhere for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Scampering around the bases, knocking hits to all fields, and coming away with an easy victory. The Dodgers did all they could to honor Jackie Rob...
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The Dodgers solemnly lined up along the third-base line, each and every one wearing No. 42. Jackie Robinson broke major league baseball's color barrier on April 15, 1947, with the Brooklyn Dodgers,...
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Jackie Robinson faced gloom early in the 1947 baseball season. He was in his rookie year as modern baseball's first black player, and he'd been prepared for the vicious racial slurs he was receivin...
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Rachel Robinson still has vivid memories of April 15, 1947, when her husband changed America forever. As Jackie Robinson was getting ready to break baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodger...
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DETROIT, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Fifty years ago when Willie
O'Ree was tapped on the shoulder by coach Milt Schmidt, slipped
over the Montreal Forum boards and skated through the NHL's
color barrier th...
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David Wright knows about his hitting streak. The Mets third baseman just isn't that interested in talking about it.Wright extended his career-best streak to 23 games with a second-inning single in ...
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Every 10 years, we find more reasons to remember Jackie Robinson. In 1987, Dodgers general manager Al Campanis told Ted Koppel on Nightline that even 40 years after Robinson broke the color barrier...
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Setting aside a day each year to honor Jackie Robinson is wonderful. So is Major League Baseball's decision to retire his No. 42 across the league. Those tributes, however, are easily forgotten onc...
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Former President Carter, who already has a book coming out this fall about his post-White House years, is working on a memoir about his mother, Lillian, to be published next spring by Simon & S...
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BOSTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Buck O'Neil will have a place in
the Baseball Hall of Fame after all, with a statue of the Negro
Leagues advocate going up in the Cooperstown museum and an
Award to be n...
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Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972)
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
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Jackie Robinson Graphic Biography
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