(through @MLB_PR)
To say Jackie Robinson influenced the civil rights movement within the United States doesn’t begin to explain his role in what our society has grow to be. Like Rosa Parks, he is perhaps the last word example of what a peaceful particular person can do, speaking for a complete individuals, in challenging a corrupt system.
And he was at the Lincoln Memorial 50 years ago Wednesday for the March on Washington, D.C. with Martin Luther King. Main League Baseball public relations tweeted pictures of Robinson making his strategy to the National Mall that day. And the Pasadena Star-News — a remnant of Robinson’s hometown papers — noted his presence there earlier this week:
Robinson brought his three kids. He can be photographed on the mall talking to a reporter as he hugged his young son David. A few of what he mentioned was taken down by the [Associated Press] reporter.
“I know all of us are going to go away feeling we can not flip back,” he informed the 100,000 who had come to Washington on that summer season day 50 years in the past.
It was not the first time Robinson appeared alongside King as an lively participant in the struggle for civil rights.
Almost a yr earlier, in September 1962, Robinson spoke to the Southern Christian Management Council’s annual Freedom Dinner in Birmingham, Ala. In his 9-page deal with the Dodger nice stated Americans needed to open their eyes and recognize that a “race drawback” existed.
Pretty a lot any picture of Robinson taken after he retired from Main League Baseball tells a story in itself. He was solely 44 years previous in 1963, but his white hair reveals somebody a lot older. He’d have solely 9 years left. He packed a lot into a short life, however it additionally cost him time on Earth. That is certainly one of many sacrifices on his part.
MLB deserves credit for recognizing what Robinson means to the game, and his courage in standing up for what is right should not be misplaced on all People — even if they are not big baseball followers.
Jackie Robinson at the March on Washington, D.C. 50 years ago
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