... in sports signal advancement in other areas of social life? black athletes boxing champions race as behavior and institutions sports capitalism and Jackie Robinson Story 1950 film Sterling Donald ousted as LA Clippers owner Harlem Globetrotters MLB Major League Baseball as racially progressive NBA...

..., featuring Catholics, Mormons, and Protestants, and included African American athletes Dan Towler and Jackie Robinson. Although Robinson’s article (first published in 1948) addressed racism, it did so in typical Guideposts fashion, presenting the United States as, at its core, a land...

... of the sport. The elimination of the color barrier increased the availability to great players to improve the quality of the major league game. Some of these African American players included Jackie Robinson, Monte Irvin and Willie Mays. During this year the New York Yankees had its first two-million fan...

... the articulation of the Truman Doctrine. By examining the historical context of Jackie Robinson's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), this chapter examines the processes through which the U.S. government resolved to alter international opinions of American race relations rather than...

... able to control how the story of the game's integration was going to be told. The story they perpetuated is one of the most affirming morality tales in American history—the story of Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson, and the integration of MLB in 1947. Because baseball in America had reflected...

... Tour de France health Pstorious Oscar Swimming baseball soccer hooliganism violence Australian Rules football Cold War fair play gender National Basketball Association Olympic Games play Jackie Robinson sexuality Tour de France Sport is not simply about who wins or loses the game...

... Monroe Jackie Robinson science fiction Andy Warhol Americans had much to celebrate after their government made good on its threat to wipe out two major Japanese cities with the apocalyptic firepower of nuclear fission. With the dropping of the atom bomb, World War II came to its gory conclusion...

... Porter print culture Jackie Robinson Virginia Woolf World Wide Web The revolution began off Broadway. On October 17, 1967, Joe Papp’s Public Theater in New York City opened with a new form of musical theater. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical electrified audiences...

...The color line was effectively breached the day Jackie Robinson stepped to the plate at Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium in the first inning of the Little Giants versus Montreal Royals game in April of 1946. It was a fortuitous game as the Royals won 14–1. Robinson's fiery temperament...

... Mohamed Mandela Nelson Bryant Kobe Gates Henry Louis Jordan Michael Williams Serena Abdel Shehid Gamel Balotelli Mario France Italy Price Joseph Smith Earl St Louis Brett Assou Ekotto Benoit England racism colonialism segregation Jack Johnson Jackie Robinson Muhammad Ali neoliberalism...

...This chapter chronicles the long history of activism that made it possible for Jackie Robinson to break baseball's color line. Sportswriters for more than a dozen African American newspapers led the effort. They were supported by three Jewish sportswriters for the communist newspaper...

...Political and civil rights advocacy have become commonplace among today’s athletes. Embodying the nexus between presidential campaign endorsements and rights-based advocacy was the Brooklyn Dodger star Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 and then broke...

...The nomination and election of Barack Obama as the first African American president invited numerous references to sport, especially through comparisons to historically significant athletes such as Jackie Robinson and Tiger Woods. Such references relied on mythic notions of merit and liberal...

... Court Baseball Cooperstown Abner Doubleday A.G. Spalding Immigrants Industrial Revolution Henry Chadwick A.G. Mills Jackie Robinson Branch Rickey Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret to eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience...

...This article explores the organized baseball's racial record as far back as the 1880s, when segregation took root in baseball, through Branch Rickey's hiring of Jackie Robinson in 1947, up to the present day. It describes how baseball became segregated and segregation's feedback effects on black...

...This chapter discusses Branch Rickey’s fall from grace as the executive of Major League Baseball. It notes that Branch Rickey brought improvements to the sport through his signing of Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente, as well as his introduction of helmets to the game. Despite his improvements...

.... Yet for others, including the militant leaders of the National Negro Republican Assembly (NNRA), this evolution was impossible, particularly since many white Republicans continued to equivocate over race, even as they championed the significance of the black vote. Jackie Robinson, for example, changed...

... as streetcars had in the previous century. The struggle over the Brookside pool lasted longer than any other case in the history of the Pasadena NAACP and shaped the memories of black Californians, including Jackie Robinson. interracial intimacy Mexican Americans Pasadena CA segregation Williams Ruby...

...The communist sportswriters continued to agitate for baseball's integration after World War II when Brooklyn Dodger executive Branch Rickey broke the unwritten ban by signing Jackie Robinson. The Daily Worker's role was hidden as Rickey, a staunch anticommunist, sought to erase...

..., nevertheless put forth a positive image of African Americans that conflicted with segregationist dogma. Relying on a Jackie Robinson anecdote and sociologist Howard Odum’s unpublished notes from his Southern Regional Laboratory and Workshop, Bertrand emphasizes the regional prevalence of “the credo” and how...