JACKIE ROBINSON: What we love about history is there’s always something new to discover. Found this the other day while reading a terrific new book on the civil rights movement, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. “On July 6, 1944, Army Second Lieutenant Jackie Robinson—who would become a baseball legend when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers following the war—refused to move to the back of an army bus at a training camp at Fort Hood, Texas, when the white driver ordered him to. Although buses on military bases had been officially ordered to desegregate, Robinson was arrested by the military police and court-martialed for insubordination. He was acquitted, transferred to another military base, and honorably discharged four months later.”
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:53:58 +0000
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