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Today in History: Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball’s Color Barrier
04/15/10
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American athlete to play for a Major League Baseball team. It was the opening day of the season for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Robinson ended a long tradition of segregation when he took the field as the team’s starting first baseman. The man who signed Robinson to his historic contract with the Dodgers, Branch Rickey, recalled his struggles to integrate professional baseball in a 1956 radio address.
Read BRANCH RICKEY’S STRUGGLES TO INTEGRATE PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL