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Jackie Robinson and Race in America
A Brief History with DocumentsFirst Edition| ©2014 Thomas W. Zeiler
Jackie Robinson made history when he debuted in major league baseball in 1947. This volume recounts Robinson’s story as a pioneer of civil rights and explores how and why the racial integration of professional baseball profoundly affected American society and culture. The introduction places Robi...
Jackie Robinson made history when he debuted in major league baseball in 1947. This volume recounts Robinson’s story as a pioneer of civil rights and explores how and why the racial integration of professional baseball profoundly affected American society and culture. The introduction places Robinson’s trailblazing achievement in the historical context of U.S. race relations. A rich collection of primary sources includes the voices of the black press and community as well as those of white commentators to reveal the range of responses to the integration of America’s "national pastime." Illustrations, document headnotes, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students’ understanding of Robinson and race in America.
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Jackie Robinson made history when he debuted in major league baseball in 1947. This volume recounts Robinson’s story as a pioneer of civil rights and explores how and why the racial integration of professional baseball profoundly affected American society and culture. The introduction places Robinson’s trailblazing achievement in the historical context of U.S. race relations. A rich collection of primary sources includes the voices of the black press and community as well as those of white commentators to reveal the range of responses to the integration of America’s "national pastime." Illustrations, document headnotes, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students’ understanding of Robinson and race in America.
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ForewordPrefaceList of IllustrationsPART ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT OF BASEBALL INTEGRATIONRobinson’s Early Years Baseball, the National PastimeJim Crow on the Baseball DiamondDouble V: Victory over Racism Abroad and at Home Robinson at WarBaseball at WarA Black Man in BaseballFighting for Civil Rights in a Cold War WorldRobinson’s Legacy PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS1. Segregation and Steps to Integration1. "A Fan Wants Negro Stars," Daily Worker, February 14, 19372. Westbrook Pegler, "Baseball Treats Negroes as Hitler Does Jews," Pittsburgh Press, August 4, 19383. Letter from Lieutenant Jack Robinson to Assistant Secretary of War Truman K. Gibson, July 16, 19444. Recommended Report for the Mayor’s Committee on Baseball, September 28, 19455. Jackie Robinson and Wendell Smith, Jackie Robinson: My Own Story, "Interview with Branch Rickey," 19486. "Baseball Gives Contract to First Negro Player," Chicago Daily Tribune, October 25, 19457. "Club Heads Give Views," New York Times, October 24, 19458. "A Crack in Baseball Jim Crow," New York Amsterdam News, November 3, 19459. Jackie Robinson and Wendell Smith, Jackie Robinson: My Own Story, "Facing Jim Crow," 19482. A Black Man in White Baseball10. Wendell Smith, "It Was a Great Day in Jersey," Pittsburgh Courier, April 27, 194611. "NAACP Youth Group Boycotts Dixie Club," Chicago Defender, May 25, 194612. Major League Committee, Report to Commissioner of Baseball A. B. Chandler, August 27, 194613. "Big Leaguers Put Okay on Robinson," Pittsburgh Courier, October 12, 194614. "Adventures in Race Relations," Chicago Defender, November 2, 194615. Jackie Robinson, "Jackie Robinson Says," Pittsburgh Courier, April 5, 194716. Louis Effrat, "Royals’ Star Signs with Brooks Today," New York Times, April 11, 194717. Jackie Robinson, "Jackie Robinson Says," Pittsburgh Courier, April 19, 19473. The Great Experiment18. "Let’s Help Jackie Do It!," New York Amsterdam News, April 19, 194719. "A Negro in the Major Leagues," Sporting News, April 23, 194720. Lester Rodney, Interview with Effa Manley, Daily Worker, April 29, 194721. Jimmy Cannon, "Lynch Mobs Don’t Always Wear Hoods," New York Times, November 19, 194522. "Jackie Robinson Continues to ‘Pack ‘Em In’ at Gate," Atlanta Daily World, May 27, 194723. Sample of Hate Mail, Received May 20, 195124. Jackie Robinson, "Jackie Robinson Says," Pittsburgh Courier, May 17, 194725. Henry Foner, "The Meaning of Jackie for the Jewish Race," 1998 26. James A. Mannix, "An Open Letter to Jackie Robinson," New York Amsterdam News, September 13, 194727. Roy Wilkins, "The Watchtower," Los Angeles Sentinel, January 1, 194828. Henry Brown, "Jackie, Campanella Break Texas Park Records," Chicago Defender, April 17, 194829. "Reject Bowl Invite over Race Issue," Chicago Defender, December 4, 194830. Buddy Johnson and Count Basie, "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball?," June 19494. Cold War Civil Rights31. President Harry S. Truman, Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights, February 2, 194832. "Text of Jackie Robinson’s Statement to House Unit," New York Times, July 19, 194933. Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, May 13, 1958 34. Telegram from Jackie Robinson to President John F. Kennedy, June 15, 196335. Letter from Jackie Robinson to Malcolm X, November 27, 1963.36. Jackie Robinson, Address to Rochester Jaycees’ Luncheon Forum, September 20, 196637. "Robinson Backs Defense of Black Group, but Mrs. Basie Defers," Pan African Press, July 17, 196838. Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Lyndon B. Johnson, April 18, 196739. Letter from Jackie Robinson to Deputy Special Assistant to the President Roland L. Elliott, April 20, 197240. Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography, 19735. Remembering Robinson41. Jesse Jackson, Eulogy for Jackie Robinson, October 27, 197242. Letter from Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma Robert Mitchell to Rachel Robinson, November 7, 197243. Roy Wilkins, "What Has Jackie Done?," Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 15, 197244. Rabbi A. James Rudin, "In Memory of Jackie Robinson," November 26, 197245. Scholastic, Interview with Rachel Robinson, February 11, 1998AppendixesA Chronology of Jackie Robinson and Race Issues in Baseball and America (1867-2011)Questions for ConsiderationSelected BibliographyIndex
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Thomas W Zeiler
Thomas W. Zeiler (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst) is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he teaches American diplomatic history, modern U.S. history, World War II, and American history through baseball. His works include Free Trade, Free World: America and the Advent of GATT, Globalization and the American Century, Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II, and Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire. He is editor of the journal Diplomatic History and a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Jackie Robinson and Race in America
First Edition| 2014
Thomas W. Zeiler
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