Jackie Robinson with two others, circa 1940

Title: Jackie Robinson with two others, circa 1940
Alternative title: Jackie Robinson, First Black Major League Baseball Player since 1880
Date Created: [circe 1940]
Date: 1940
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Jackie Robinson (right) standing with two unidentified African American men in a park-like seating.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. [Wikipedia]. Robinson contributed significantly to the civil rights movement, used his influence, to promote nonviolence, and received NAACP's Spingarn Medal.

Genre: photographs
Names: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American football players
African American baseball players