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First class citizenship : the civil rights letters of Jackie Robinson / edited by Michael G. Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972--Correspondence.
- Robinson, Jackie.
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
- African American baseball players--Correspondence.
- African American baseball players.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Times Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- Never-before-published letters offer a rich portrait of the baseball star as a fearless advocate for racial justice. Jackie Robinson's courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the struggle for civil rights in America, but his death at age fifty-three in 1972 robbed America of his voice far too soon. Here, Robinson comes alive on the page, as scholar Long unearths a remarkable trove of Robinson's correspondence with--and personal replies from--such towering figures as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Barry Goldwater. Writing eloquently, Robinson charted his own course, offering his support to Democrats and Republicans, questioning the tactics of the civil rights movement, and challenging the nation's leaders. Robinson truly personified the "first class citizenship" that he considered the birthright of all Americans.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Faith in democracy : 1946-1956
- From faith to frustration : 1957
- Against patience : 1958
- Profiles in question : 1959
- Selling Nixon : 1960
- Wrong about Kennedy? : 1961
- From the Hall of Fame to hallowed ashes : 1962
- Back our brothers, except Adam and Malcolm : 1963
- The campaign against bigotry : 1964
- A Rockefeller Republican : 1965-1966
- Sharp attacks, surprising defenses : 1967
- The politics of Black Pride : 1968
- Moving forward in our struggle : 1969-1972.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805087109
- 0805087109
- OCLC:
- 126802699
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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