Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

Social Activism

🇺🇸United States

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers signing Robinson heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s.

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1919 – 1972

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"The kid was great. He was the difference. The Yankees certainly didn't miss Joe DiMaggio out there in center field today—and won't as long as that guy's around."

— Jackie Robinson

Social Activism1919–1972

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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

— Jackie Robinson

Social Activism1919–1972

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"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

— Jackie Robinson

Social Activism1919–1972

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"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. I am not ashamed of my dark skin. You and every other white American should understand that we be…"

— Jackie Robinson

Social Activism1919–1972

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"It was a small victory, for I had learned that I was in two wars, one against the foreign enemy, the other against prejudice at home."

— Jackie Robinson

Social Activism1919–1972

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"I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world."

— Jackie Robinson

Social Activism1919–1972

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1919
Born
Birth
1972
Died
Death

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