Biography: Jackie Robinson
Biography: Jackie Robinson
Biography: Jackie Robinson
Biography: Jackie Robinson
Storefront of an upscale Mom and Pop appliance store. Jackie Robinson wearing a light gray business suit works as a salesman in the off season. Jackie showing a cabinet to a young, mobile white couple. He opens the doors of the cabinet to reveal a television set. Jackie and customer inspecting a stovetop cooking range.
Biography: Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson playing with pair of dumbbells for a group of bare-chested African American boys in a school gym. Boys Club. Jackie putting on suit jacket. Jackie to camera, "A Brotherhood movement is gaining ground every day. It is slowly and surely becoming a fact and not remaining just a theory."
Biography: Jackie Robinson
Brooklyn Dodger practice. Dodger players, including Jackie Robinson, sliding into home plate. Dodger Roy Campanella in batting cage. Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe warming up on mound. Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe posing for camera. Jackie batting, running bases. Crowd cheering. MSs of Jackie hanging out, celebrating with fellow Dodgers and coaches after a victory.
Biography: Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson and wife Rachel Isum Robinson in Washington, entering federal building. Jackie testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) about statements made by Paul Robeson about blacks refusing to fight in a war against Russia. I ve been asked to express my views on Paul Robeson s statements in Paris to the effect that American Negroes would refuse to fight in any war against Russia because we love Russia so much. I haven t any comment to make except that any event of war with Russia, Negroes, and Italians, and Irish, and Jews, and Swedes, and Slavs, and other Americans would act just as all these groups did in the last war. They d do their best to keep their country out of war, if unsuccessful, then do their best to help their country win the war against Russia or any other enemy that threatened us.