What Jackie Robinson Means to America 65 Years Later

With all due respect to the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the fight for civil rights and equality truly began on a national level on April 15th, 1947—the day Jackie Roosevelt Robinson officially debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves.

While he did not record a hit on the stat sheet in terms of baseball that day, for progress with race relations, he began the move towards the gains we see currently in the country.

For the men and women who fought in Europe and the Pacific during World War II only to return home as second-class citizens, he swung for them.

The reason I say this is not because of some documentary I watched, film clips produced by sports television comp...

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