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Did racism kill Jackie Robinson?

  • Written by Tamra Burns Loeb, Adjunct Associate Professor - Interim, University of California, Los Angeles
imageAdoring fans clamor for an autograph from baseball legend Jackie Robinson in 1962, but Robinson faced slurs, hatred and insults in his early years in the majors. Bettman/

Baseball great Jackie Robinson was a living, breathing example of athleticism and apparent good health, playing four sports at UCLA and becoming the first Black man to play in...

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