The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson: The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights During World War II

by Michael Lee Lanning

Book Overview

Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a celebrated athlete in track and football and in a few years the man who would break Major League Baseball's color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in Jackie...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811738647
• ISBN13: 9780811738644
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"