The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson: The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights During World War II
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0811738647
ISBN13:9780811738644
Release Date:February 2020
Publisher:Stackpole Books
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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