Friday, April 15, 2022

Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Line 75 Years -- April 15, 2022

Minneapolis Star, 14-April-1947

75 years ago today, Jackie Robinson played his first major league game for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color bar that had excluded African-Americans from organized baseball since the late Nineteenth Century. He went 0 for 3, but no one cared that day. The next day he scored the winning run in a game against the Boston Braves. 

Jackson Advocate, 26-April-1947


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