At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to ...
— -- This story has been corrected. Read below. An entrepreneur says he has unearthed the sports equivalent of the Emancipation Proclamation: one of the original contracts Jackie Robinson signed ...
Baseball player Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier as its first Black athlete. The infielder made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, and went on to have a ...
The often forgotten story of Jackie Robinson's court-martial and the fight that ensured his legacy. Before breaking baseball's color barrier, Jackie Robinson was a young second lieutenant during World ...