Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people into a religion and teaching them new rituals. Will they be able to relate?"MORTON J. HORWITZ *City College of New York '59, Harvard Ph.D. (Political Science) '64, Harvard Law '67 *Warren Professor of Law, specialist in American Legal History *Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals Justice Spottswood W. Robinson...
...league clubs have been widely believed (but never proved) to be Negroes. Last week, after three years and $25,000 worth of scouting the Negro leagues, Branch ("The Brain") Rickey called in reporters-not to make a confession but to tell the world that Brooklyn had signed Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro shortstop...
With the ice broken, the New York Giants' President Horace Stoneham planned to give Negro leagues a looking over. His Polo Grounds park is located on the edge of Harlem, and a Jack Robinson would step up his already substantial Negro trade. The clubs least likely to cross the racial bridge were the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns, who until recently did not even allow Negroes in the grandstand...
...journalist," he once said, "I am in command of a small sector in the very front trenches of this battle for freedom." For Henry Robinson Luce, the battle ended last week. On the 44th anniversary of TIME'S first issue, America's greatest maker of magazines died in Phoenix of a coronary occlusion...
...fresh answers to a question that doesn't really mean anything." Furthermore, she said, "don't expect me to favor every black cause that comes along." Black leaders enthusiastically favored her victory. Said Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson: "Vanessa did for the Miss America Pageant what Jackie Robinson did for the Dodgers...