The Jackie Robinson I Remember

Abstract

Editor's Note: African-American students at predominantly white colleges and universities are often confronted with subtle acts of discrimination, expectations of failure, perceptions of inferiority, and outright racial insults. They may find inspiration in the story of how Jackie Robinson, in game after game, faced up to the bedsheet bigots of the 1950s, as told by Roger Kahn, one of America's foremost baseball writers.