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Summary:

Autobiography of an African American who broke the color barrier in major league baseball and devoted his life to achieving justice.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Cornel West
• Introduction / Hank Aaron
• Preface : Today / Jackie Robinson
• The noble experiment
• A dream deferred
• The nobel experiment
• Breaking the color barrier
• The major leagues
• Just another guy
• My own man
• The price of popularity
• The growing family
• The ninth inning
• After the ball game
• New horizons
• Campaigning for Nixon
• The Hall of Fame Award
• Conflict at the Apollo
• Crises at home
• On being black among the Republicans

• Differences with Malcolm X
• The Freedom Bank
• Hope and disillusionment in white politics
• The influence of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Jackie's prison
• Politics today
• " ... and he was free"
• Aftermath
• Epilogue.

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Author/Creator:

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972

Contributors:

Duckett, Alfred

West, Cornel

Aaron, Hank, 1934-2021

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

An autobiography of Jackie Robinson: I never had it made [by Robinson, J.]

Alternate Titles:

Cover title: Jackie Robinson, an autobiography

Subjects:

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972

Baseball players — United States — Biography

Baseball players

United States

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1972.
"Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett ; introductions by Cornel West and Hank Aaron" - p. [ii].

Audience:

Children

Physical Description:

xxiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Call Numbers:

J921 R662a

ISBNs:

0060555971 (pbk.)
9780060555979 (pbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

52329165