Jackie Robiinson

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• A League of Her Own - Sharon Robinson
  Sharon Robinson '76NRS delivers on her father's legacy. by Paul Hond Columbia Magazine. Summer 2017 Her memoir, Stealing Home, came out in 1996 from Harper-Collins. In it, she discussed her childhood, her family life, the difficulties that came with integrating her all-white school and neighborhood, her marriages, her father’s politics, and her parents’ partnership. She has since published two young-adult novels and seven children’s books.
• Jackie Robinson - A film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon
  Jackie Robinson, a two-part, four-hour film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon tells the story of an American icon whose life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcends even his remarkable athletic achievements. “Jackie Robinson,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “was a sit-inner before sit-ins, a freedom rider before freedom rides.”