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  2. Jackie Robinson - Wikipedia

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    Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.

  3. The Jackie Robinson Story - Wikipedia

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    The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green (who had directed The Jolson Story, "one of the biggest hits of the 40s") [4] and starring Jackie Robinson as himself. The film focuses on Robinson's struggle with the abuse of bigots as he becomes the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the ...

  4. File:Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman, and Dodgers president Branch Rickey after signing a contract in 1950. Robinson more than doubled his salary from $17,000 to $35,000 after winning ...

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    Jackie Robinson’s debut for the Dodgers marked the breaking of the “color line” in modern major league baseball, the same color line within professional baseball that had been broken in 1884 ...

  7. What happened the day Jackie Robinson made his major ... - AOL

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    Image: Jackie Robinson (Bettmann Archive) Facing one of the game’s best pitchers, Johnny Sain, who had gone 20-14 with a 2.21 ERA in 1946, Robinson grounded out to third. Two innings later, he ...

  8. File:Jrobinson.jpg - Wikipedia

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  9. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Jackie Kennedy (right), still in her blood-soaked clothes, looks on. [s 2] Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald: 24 November 1963 Robert H. Jackson: Dallas, Texas, United States The photograph depicts the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby while Oswald was being escorted by police two days after he had assassinated US president John F ...