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25 Photos of Jackie Robinson, Famed Baseball Player and Champion of Civil Rights

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Jackie Robinson relaxes between takes on the set of the 1950 biopic The Jackie Robinson Story in which he starred as himself. Time
Jackie Robinson, 38, empties his locker at the clubhouse of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club in Ebbets Field, closing out a ten-year starring stint with the club. Jan. 7, 1957. AP
Jackie Robinson and his wife, Rachel, arrive at Capitol Hill. Robinson was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about the loyalty of blacks to the United States. July 18, 1949. AP
Jackie Robinson testifying before the House of Un-American Activities Committee on the loyalty of African Americans, 1949. Biography
Jackie Robinson with his family after retiring from baseball. biogrpahy
Jackie Robinson and Vice President Richard Nixon during a campaign event in northern New Jersey. biography
Activists demanding desegregation of baseball march during a New York City May Day parade. National Endowment for the Humanities
Former baseball star Jackie Robinson grabbed a sign and joined a picket line in Cleveland, Ohio, to protest discrimination against blacks at southern lunch counters, 1960. The picketing was organized by the N.A.A.C.P. (AP Photo)
Jackie Robinson meets Fidel Castro in Manhattan. April 23, 1959. AP
Jackie Robinson and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a press conference in New York. biography

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