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OCT 17, 1957
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With the situation in Little Rock far “He was a
from resolved, Jackie Robinson joins 1962
members of the NAACP in New York for freedom rider
a telephone conversation with Daisy Bates Voter
and seven of the nine children who had
integrated Central High, to provide before there registration
encouragement for their efforts. In Decatur, Georgia
were freedom and Harlem (New York
City), Jackie Robinson
rides.” serves as a central fig-
ure in voter registration
rallies and efforts.
– THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN
LUTHER KING, JR.
JAN 23, 1962
The Freedom Rides in the United States Hall of
occurred between May 4 and December 10,
1961. African-American and white civil rights Fame
activists took bus trips together through
FALL 1960 southern states such as Alabama and South induction
President Nixon Carolina to protest segregated bus terminals. JAN 1, 1962 Robinson becomes
and Dr. King Jackie as the first African JUN 30, 1963
American inducted
To campaign for Republican MAY 1961 a visionary into the Baseball Jazz for a
presidential candidate Richard Hall of Fame in Cause
Nixon, Jackie Robinson takes a Rachel Robinson In New York’s African- Cooperstown,
leave of absence from Chock full American weekly New York. Jackie and Rachel
o’Nuts until the presidential election earns a master’s publication, Amsterdam Robinson host a jazz
Following the landmark Brown v. in November. When a hostile judge degree News, Robinson starts concert at their home
Board of Education decision, a group in De Kalb County, Georgia a column called “Home in Stamford, Connecticut
of nine African-American high school sentences Dr. King to four months Graduating from New York to raise bail money to
students enrolled in the segregated in jail, Robinson appeals to the University (NYU) with a Plate,” which focuses help civil rights activists
Little Rock Central High School in Nixon campaign for a direct show master’s degree in psychiatric on politics and civil who are jailed in the South.
Arkansas. After protests, President of support for the civil rights leader. nursing, Rachel Robinson later rights. In 1962, he is also The event continues and
Eisenhower sent federal troops to Nixon refuses. Robinson responds, becomes Head of Psychiatric elected to the NAACP's supports important causes
protect the students. saying, “Nixon doesn’t deserve Nursing at the Albert Einstein Board of Directors. annually until 2001.
to win.” College of Medicine.

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