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If I had to choose tomorrow between the Baseball
Hall of Fame and full citizenship for my people,
I would choose full citizenship time and again.
“ – Jack Roosevelt Robinson, conclusion ”
to his speeches given in 1962
Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, veteran boxer Archie
Moore, Jackie Robinson, and Curtis Flood of the St. Louis
Cardinals at the Masonic Temple in Jackson, Mississippi prior
to their appearance at the southeast regional meeting of
the NAACP, February 25, 1962.
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