jackie robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball.
jackie robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball.
who broke the color barrier in major league baseball?
jackie robinson
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rickey's most memorable act with dodgers involved signing jackie robinson, thus breaking baseball's color barrier, which had been an unwritten rule since the 1880s. this policy had continued under a succession of baseball leaders, including landis, who was openly opposed to integrating major league baseball for what he regarded as legitimate reasons. landis died in 1944, but rickey had already set the process in motion, having sought (and gained) approval from the dodgers board of directors in 1943 to begin the search for "the right man."
branch rickey
historically, african-american athletes at kansas state were responsible for breaking the modern "color barrier" in big seven conference athletics. harold robinson became the first african-american athlete in the conference in more than two decades and the first ever to receive a scholarship, playing football for kansas state in 1949. in the spring of 1951 the conference's baseball color barrier was broken by kansas state's earl woods, and in the winter of 1951–1952 kansas state's gene wilson broke the conference color barrier in basketball (together with lavannes c. squires at the university of kansas).









































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