Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on Jan. 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia, where his family sharedcropped. The ...
Professional baseball player, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on this day in 1919. As the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, Robinson broke the ...
Baseball player Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier as its first Black athlete. The infielder made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, and went on to have a ...