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Jackie Robinson Career Timeline - Timeline Help
Jackie Robinson career timeline part two of three from 1947 to 1970 at Timeline Help.
- 1947 April
- 1947 September 23
- 1947 October
- 1949 July
- 1949 October
- 1949 - 1952
- 1950 January 13
- 1950
- 1952 May 14
- 1957 January
- 1957 June
- 1958
- 1960
- 1962 January
- 1963
- 1964
- 1968
- 1970 | Debutes as first African-American in the Major League with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves.
Fans of Robinson organize a Jackie Robinson Day.
Robinson is named the first National League Rookie of the Year, is the fifth Most Valuable Player and holds the Most Stolen Bases record. These records in my Jackie Robinson career timeline are to be continued in the next years ahead.
Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby and Don Newcombe are the first African-Amercians to play in the American All Stars Team. Testifies before the investigative House Committee on Un-American Activities HCUA of the United States House of Representatives about African-Americans in the army.
Most Valuable Player in the National League. Leading National League batter. Most Stolen Bases record holder.
Leading Second Baseman in double plays, in 1951 he shares this title.
Daughter Sharon Robinson is born.
Plays himself in the biographical movie The Jackie Robinson Story.
Jackie's second son David Robinson is born.
Jackie Robinson retires as a professional player from Major League baseball and becomes business executive of Chock Full O'Nuts restaurants.
Howard University in Washington, DC makes Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King, Jr. Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa.
Works as fundraiser for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP.
Campaigns for presidential candidate Richard Nixon.
Inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Marches in a civil rights protest in Alabama with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Special assistant in the presidential campaign of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
National Chairman of the Brotherhood Week for the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Mother Mallie dies.
The Jackie Robinson Construction Company is founded to construct housing for the poor. | Jackie Robinson Career Timeline 2 1 3
| Bibliography of the Jackie Robinson Career Timeline O'Connor, J (1989) The Story of All Black Baseball.
Dunn, H and Henderson, M (1999). Young Sports Trailblazer.
Erskine, C (2005). What I Learned From Jackie Robinson.
Schumer, C and Dorinson, J (1999). Race, Sports and the American Dream.
Walker, S and Pate, R (2002). On My Own Biography.
Simon, S (2007). Integration of Baseball. |
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