Examples of Historical Thinking - Jackie Robinson & MLK Jr. - Mallie Robinson
Channel: teachinghistoryorg
Date: 11/04/2012

In a 1962 telegram from Albany, GA, Martin Luther King Jr. called Jackie Robinson "one of the truly great men of our nation." What made Jackie Robinson great?

Drawing on the telegram and the speech King planned to give at Robinson's Hall of Fame dinner, historian Pellom McDaniels III looks at who and what contributed to forming Robinson's life and worldviews. How did he become the star athlete and civil rights pioneer King acknowledges in his telegram?

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