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JAN 14, 1957 1957
Career change Fundraising
SEP 28, 1955
“He’s safe!” Jackie Robinson’s history-making The Brooklyn Dodgers trade for Dr. King
Jackie Robinson to the New York
achievements in baseball were only part
Jackie Robinson steals of his extraordinary life and legacy. His Giants, but Robinson had already In addition to raising funds for
“Jack and I finally one of the 1955 World athleticism and performance as a major decided to retire from baseball the NAACP, Jackie Robinson
home plate in game
travels extensively in 1957 to
league player became a platform that
and publicly announces that he
felt connected to Series, creating great allowed him to invite all of America into a will become Vice President of raise funds for Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr’s Southern Christian
conversation that would impact almost every
Personnel Relations for the
team momentum.
Leadership Conference (SCLC)
facet of our society. Throughout his years as
Chock full o’Nuts corporation.
something larger The Brooklyn Dodgers a corporate executive, civil servant, and major While there, Robinson chairs the organization, which defends
win the series in
figure in national politics, he would continue
equal rights for people of color.
NAACP’s Fight for Freedom Fund,
than [our] struggles seven games, earning to be an outspoken leader for civil and human equal rights for people of color,
which raises money to fight for
the Dodgers their first
rights issues.
World Championship.
in baseball, [and and he convinces the company Formed in 1957 after the Montgomery
to support those efforts.
Bus Boycott, SCLC’s mission was to
were] more intensely end all forms of segregation. Today,
the organization remains focused on
connected to the economic justice and civil rights for
people of color.
destiny of our race.” DEC 8, 1956
Spingarn Medal
– R ACHEL ROBINSON, ON THE L ANDMARK The National Association for
1954 BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
SUPREME COURT DECISION the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) announces
that Jackie Robinson will
receive its highest honor,
The 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board OCT 1956 the Spingarn Medal, given
of Education continues to positively impact all of society. The annually to an African
justices ruled unanimously that “racial segregation of children Brooklyn Dodgers’ American whose achievements
in public schools is unconstitutional.” The Brown decision was brought credit to the race.
a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Goodwill Tour
Jackie and Rachel Robinson visit
Japan with the Brooklyn Dodgers The NAACP is a civil rights organization
founded in 1909 to advance equal rights
for a twenty-game tour to support and justice for African Americans.
United States diplomatic and It remains an active and important
cultural relations after World War II. organization.
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