First class citizenship : the civil rights letters of Jackie Robinson / edited by Michael G. Long.

Never-before-published letters offer a rich portrait of the baseball star as a fearless advocate for racial justice. Jackie Robinson's courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the struggle for civil rights in America, but his death at age fifty-three in 1972 robbed America of h...

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Main Author:	Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
Other Authors:	Long, Michael G.
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Times Books, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Robinson, Jackie, > 1919-1972 > Correspondence. African American baseball players > Correspondence. African Americans > Civil rights.
Genre:	Correspondence.
Physical Description:	xviii, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book