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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 08:51 PM
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All the African American milestones that are cited now
Edited on Wed Nov-05-08 08:51 PM by WCGreen
seem to forget about Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Hattie McDaniel...

Arguably, these folks brought racial inequality front in center on the world stage, in the movies and on the Baseball field...

The emotions that Jackie Robinson bottled up inside as he was taunted, spit at and yelled at in almost every major league park he played in took a toll on the man. He knew what he was getting into. But he never talked about civil rights until he was far removed from baseball.

Sports and Entertainment figures blazed the way for many more who came after...

Jackie Robinson, a true American hero...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 09:06 PM
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1. They all did what they wanted to do...
And what they needed to do...

I doubt that they even saw themselves as heroes...

But they are.
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