42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

Book Overview

Explores Jackie Robinson's compelling and complicated legacy

Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball in the twentieth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479805629
• ISBN13: 9781479805624
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"