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This Day in Black History: April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson helped to break the color barrier

This Day in Black History: April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson helped to break the color barrier

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Friday, April 15th 2022 at 11:17AM · 789 views
This Day in Black History: April 15, 1947
Jackie Robinson helped to break the color barrier in major league baseball.

Jackie Robinson Ends Racial Segregation in Baseball - As the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and effectively was the beginning anchor in ending racial segregation in the sport for good. Robinson would go on to play 10 seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers.(Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
After more than 50 years of segregation, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947. He became the first African-American to play in the MLB when he stepped on Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as a Brooklyn Dodger.

Growing up, Robinson was a natural athlete. Before he began setting records on a professional level, he attended the University of California, where he became the first athlete, Black or white, to letter in four varsity sports: baseball, basketball, football and track.

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robert powell Friday, April 15th 2022 at 7:27PM


A REAL AMERICAN, A REAL MAN..Mr.Jack Roosevelt Robinson

...OverQualified..GOAT athlete, scholar, Humanitarian and African American Pioneer...!

The HAMMER that "shattered" BIA style COLORED'whiteSupremistCulture-'Misconceptions'

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, April 15th 2022 at 8:10PM

This is truly a day to remember, Jackie Robinson Ends Racial Segregation in Baseball - As the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.

robert powell Saturday, April 16th 2022 at 9:00AM


Forget baseball...

Robinson attended the University of California, where he became the first athlete, to letter

in four varsity sports: baseball, basketball, football and track.

He influenced the culture of the civil rights movement.

Robinson also was the first African American television analyst in MLB and the first

African American vice president of a major American corporation, Chock full o'Nuts. I

..he helped establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial

institution based in Harlem, New York..Robinson was posthumously awarded the Congressional

Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom of his achievements on and off the field.

..Thank you Mr. Robinson

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, April 16th 2022 at 12:15PM

This is a day that will always be remembered in history.

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