In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

To young and old today who want to make a change, Rita Omokha proclaims, “Tell yourself you can — and watch yourself prove it ...

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

The Jackie Robinson Museum highlights Robinson and ... showed up and was a part of some key campaigns during the civil rights movement that Dr. King was leading," says Gibson.

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was initiated greatly, from the actions of Black World War II veterans. Jackie Robinson was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. Before the ...

The 1960s civil rights movement was galvanizing ... “He’s sort of the film equivalent of Jackie Robinson in sports,” Dennis said. “He becomes the emblematic symbol of what we should ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

“When King became the leader of the civil rights movement and was calling for help and looking for support, Jackie Robinson was right there. He was always one of the first guys to get on a plane and ...