That began changing when Jackie Robinson played his first game for New York's Brooklyn Dodgers on April fifteenth,nineteen forty-seven.

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Jackie Robinson had difficulty on and off the baseball field, but he did not let that interfere with his game.

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During that time, Branch Rickey tested Robinson's ability to deal with racial pressure he would face in the major league.

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Professor Robinson says it is not clear when the first marriage between a black person and a white person took place.

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In the late nineteen seventies, music producer Sylvia Robinson realized that hip-hop was becoming a popular part of street celebrations.

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He became a lieutenant after boxing champion Joe Louis pushed for Robinson to be trained as an officer.

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Rickey thought Jackie Robinson was good enough as a player and strong enough as a person to succeed.

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He thought that it would lessen the fears of white men that white women would find Robinson desirable.

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She says M.R.Robinson saw an imbalance between recognition of success in sports and of that in the arts.

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His father had left. His mother did not earn much money, so Jackie Robinson learned to make his own way in life.

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However,after three years, Robinson was dismissed from the army because he objected to a racial order.

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Last week, the Obamas announced that Marian Robinson would move into the White House with the Obamas and help take care of the girls.

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They had three children. It was important to Branch Rickey that Jackie Robinson be married.

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Robinson's success opened the door for other black athletes to play on all-white professional teams.

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In nineteen forty-seven, Jackie Robinson became the first black to play modern major league baseball.

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Some observers said that Jackie Robinson was not the best player in the Negro Leagues.

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With hand tools, he and Rufus Robinson threw dirt on the fire and dug a line to contain it so the flames would not spread.

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He made Robinson promise that he would never show his anger on the baseball field.

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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was the first black man to play in modern major league baseball.

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Critics hated it. Two days after the show opened, Clare Boothe married Henry Robinson Luce.

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