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Celebrating the Life of Jackie Robinson

Celebrating the Life of Jackie Robinson

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Mar 20, 2025
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Grand Rising Family!

Today we celebrate the late and great Jackie Robinson.

According to the Jackie Robinson Museum:

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era. He would later become the first African American named a vice president at a fortune 500 company; serve as an advisor to politicians; start a bank and a housing development company; and, was a key figure in advancing equal opportunity and first-class citizenship for all Americans during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Hailed a “..freedom rider before freedom rides,” Robinson’s name has become synonymous with breaking barriers.

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