Jackie Robinson Has Never Been More Important Than He Is Right Now
by DeArbea Walker from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#526RR)
A year before he made his Negro League debut, on July 6, 1944, Jackie Robinson refused to sit in the back of a bus, prompting his discharge from the Army. It was 11 years before Rosa Parks stood up against injustice in Alabama. Robinson was ahead of his time and exuded courage that, in Martin Luther King Jr.'s words,"