Читать книгу Jackie Robinson онлайн

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Schuster, Joseph M., author.

Title: Jackie Robinson / Joe Schuster.

Description: Boston MA : GemmaMedia, 2018. | Series: Gemma open door

Identifiers: LCCN 2018040591 | ISBN 9781936846719

Subjects: LCSH: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972. | Baseball players--United States--Biography. | African American baseball players--Biography.

Classification: LCC GV865.R6 S354 2018 | DDC 796.357092 [B] --dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018040591

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Gemma’s Open Doors provide fresh stories, new ideas, and essential resources for young people and adults as they embrace the power of reading and the written word.

Brian Bouldrey

Series Editor

Open Door

For Kathy and my family,

especially Joe V and Mila

1.

Against the Klan

Jackie Robinson was in a fight with the Ku Klux Klan almost three months before his best baseball season ever. The Klan was angry because Jackie’s team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, agreed to play three exhibition games in Georgia against the Atlanta Crackers.