Robinson, best remembered for integrating major league baseball, also left behind an impressive record as a crusader for African American rights after he hung up his cleats.

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Here are 42 facts to celebrate the legendary athlete. 1. Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia but raised in California. Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo ...

He wrote the following piece for USA TODAY. Jackie Robinson is the ultimate American hero in a class by himself of not only athletes, but of all Americans. He was a four-sport athlete with high ...

On Tuesday, all across the baseball world, Jackie Robinson Day commemorations will ... was made possible by the system that forbade Black athletes like him from playing in MLB.

After all, during a Black History Month event, Trump said the White House would build a statue of Jackie Robinson along with other deceased black athletes such as Muhammad Ali and Kobe Bryant.