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Joe Louis: From Boxing Gloves to Combat Boots, The National WWII Museum
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Before Jackie Robinson: Baseball's Civil Rights Movement – Society for American Baseball Research
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
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson: The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights during World War II
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On this day in history, Jan. 31, 1919, Jackie Robinson is born in Georgia — baseball pioneer, WWII veteran
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MLB Celebrates Jackie Robinson's 75th Anniversary of Breaking Color Barrier
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I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
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Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson