Jackie Robinson is pictured in his Stamford, Conn. home, also the site of the Dayton Jazz Concert, on June 27, 1971. Robinson’s son Jackie Jr., who was killed in an automobile accident a week ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

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.