~~~Quote: "Now we have a problem in making our power credible...and Vietnam is the place", unquote, US Assassinated President John F(itzerald) Kennedy, (May 29, 1917-November 22, 1963)~~~
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And then on December 1, 1955, The Mongomery Bus Boycott, fulled the racial flames in the Deep South. Alabama was rife with white peoples' hatred.
US baseball star Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972), who, in 1944, at the end of WWII, vowed not to go to the end of a bus; Robinson, who played "Second Baseman", for the Brooklyn Dodgers, begun his career at first base. The date: April 15, 1947. He wore #42. *Robinson was "Rookie of the Year", (1947), and won various World Series Baseball titles over the years, (late 1940's to 1954). He was MVB, (1949); and he was a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, (1962). After his career in all sports, Robinson was in the US Military.
Robinson was part of the Fort Riley cavalry, (Kansas). He attended the Officer Candidate School (OCS); Robinson supported Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), a African-American boxer; and Robinson worked with Truman Kella Gibson, Jr., (January 22, 1912 – December 23, 2005), (a boxing promote, insurence executive, and who was helping US President Roosevelt on race matters. He was a native of Georgia, but died in Chicago.
Robinson was made a "Second Lieutenant", (January, 1943). He then married African-American nurse Rachel Annetta Isum (Robinson), (July 19, 1922-), (they'd met at UCLA in 1941)-in 1946. **They had several children: Jackie Robinson Jr. (November 18, 1946-); Sharon Robinson, January 13, 1950-); and David Robinson, (May 14, 1952-). Footnote: Rachel Robinson was the Yale School of Nursing Assistant Professor; the Connecticut Mental Health Center, (Director of Nursing); and the Freedom National Bank boardwoman, (a African-American Bank her husband founded)-(it shut down in 1990)**.
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