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Rockefeller for Governor”
Pin-back Button, 1966.
Jackie Robinson
Museum Collection
“
Governor Rockefeller asked me to become one of six deputy
national directors of his campaign. …I wanted to involve
myself in politics as a means of helping black people and
”
Nelson Rockefeller announces Jackie Robinson as
I wanted my own business enterprises. … I was not on the special assistant to the governor for community
Republican party as I was on the Governor. affairs, February 8, 1966.
– Jack Roosevelt Robinson, I Never Had It Made, 1972 Courtesy of the Bettman Archive, Getty Images
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