I Never Had It Made
Subtitle: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 6, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780060555979
First sentence: My grandfather was born into slavery, and although my mother and my father, Mallie and Jerry Robinson, lived during an era when physical slavery had been abolished, they also lived in a newer, more sophisticated kind of slavery than the kind Mr. Lincoln struck down.