The court-martial of Jackie Robinson : the baseball legend's battle for civil rights during World War II / Michael Lee Lanning.
2020
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Title
The court-martial of Jackie Robinson : the baseball legend's battle for civil rights during World War II / Michael Lee Lanning.
Imprint
Guilford, Connecticut : Stackpole Books, [2020]
Description
1 online resource
Formatted Contents Note
Racism: the two-headed snake
Georgia to California
The athletes emerges
UCLA and Rachel Isum
Early stances against racism
After college
African Americans and military service
nd Lt. Robinson
Medical issues
Camp Hood, Texas
Back of the bus
The charges
The statements
The investigation
The Court-Martial
The verdict
Final army days
The Negro Leagues
Branch Rickey
Spring training
Montreal Royals
Breaking the color barrier
Federal Bureau of Investigation
House Un-American activities committee
Fame, death threats, and retirement
Life after baseball
More FBI
Final days
Legacy
Conclusions
Epilogue: people, places, things-today.
Georgia to California
The athletes emerges
UCLA and Rachel Isum
Early stances against racism
After college
African Americans and military service
nd Lt. Robinson
Medical issues
Camp Hood, Texas
Back of the bus
The charges
The statements
The investigation
The Court-Martial
The verdict
Final army days
The Negro Leagues
Branch Rickey
Spring training
Montreal Royals
Breaking the color barrier
Federal Bureau of Investigation
House Un-American activities committee
Fame, death threats, and retirement
Life after baseball
More FBI
Final days
Legacy
Conclusions
Epilogue: people, places, things-today.
Summary
"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 move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a celebrated athlete in track and football and in a few years the man who would break Major League Baseball's color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in Jackie Robinson's pre-MLB career. Had he been found guilty, he would not have been the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Had the incident never happened, he would've gone overseas with the Black Panther tank battalion-and who knows what after that. Having survived this crucible of unjust prosecution as an American soldier, Robinson-already a talented multisport athlete-became the ideal player to integrate baseball. This is a dramatic story, deeply engaging and enraging. It's a Jackie Robinson story and a baseball story, but it is also an army story as well as an American story"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Includes index.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2020).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Lanning, Michael Lee. Court-martial of Jackie Robinson. Guilford, Connecticut : Stackpole Books, [2020]
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Language
English
ISBN
9780811768627 (electronic book)
0811768627 (electronic book)
9780811738644 (hardcover)
0811768627 (electronic book)
9780811738644 (hardcover)