Great Time Coming
Subtitle: The Life Of Jackie Robinson From Baseball to Birmingham
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: February 6, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780684823485
Subjects: Biography: sport; United States; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Sports - General; Sports - Baseball; Civil rights movements; Baseball - History; People of Color; Biography & Autobiography / General; Baseball players; Afro-American baseball players
First sentence: Before Albany, Georgia, became a civil rights flashpoint in the early 1960s, it was simply a small southern city, segregated as any other, but special in the sense that it was (and had been since its founding over 130 years before) a gateway to the lower part of the state.