A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... Here's a look at his college career. Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, but his family moved to Pasadena, California in 1920.
In a continued celebration of Black History Month, our first pick this week is Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose ...
Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...
Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...
Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break the color barrier in baseball, becoming one of the most beloved men in America. Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in ...
"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that ... it is that we shall not look upon his like again." He was born on Jan. 31, 1919, in rural Georgia. His father, Jerry, was a ladies man ...
“We try to stand for perseverance, overcoming odds, not giving up — everything that Jackie Robinson stood for and was able to accomplish because of those traits.” Robinson, born in ...
Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...
Jackie Robinson led the way for generations of black ... it is that we shall not look upon his like again." He was born on Jan. 31, 1919, in rural Georgia. His father, Jerry, was a ladies man ...