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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson - The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights during World War II (Paperback)
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson - The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights during World War II (Paperback)
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Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the
bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in
Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and
found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack
Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a celebrated athlete in track
and football and in a few years the man who would break Major
League Baseball's color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in
Jackie Robinson's pre-MLB career. Had he been found guilty, he
would not have been the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Had
the incident never happened, he would've gone overseas with the
Black Panther tank battalion-and who knows what after that. Having
survived this crucible of unjust prosecution as an American
soldier, Robinson-already a talented multisport athlete-became the
ideal player to integrate baseball. This is a dramatic story,
deeply engaging and enraging. It's a Jackie Robinson story and a
baseball story, but it is also an army story as well as an American
story.
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