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  • Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson
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    Jackie Robinson

    The year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie...
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  • The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
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    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

    Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and...
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  • The Color Of The Wind The Color Of The Wind
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    The Color Of The Wind

    In Renee Robinson's poetry collection, The Color of The Wind,the author battles colon cancer. Death can be a celestial transition into a new realm. Despair may be felt as the eyes first begin to read...
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  • Sport and the Color Line Sport and the Color Line
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    Sport and the Color Line

    The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century...
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  • Breaking the Color Barrier Breaking the Color Barrier
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    Breaking the Color Barrier

    The history of sports and race is messy. In baseball Jackie Robinson is universally touted as the first black major league player, which conveniently forgets Moses Fleetwood Walker and other players...
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  • NEWS ABOUT COLORED PEOPLE NEWS ABOUT COLORED PEOPLE
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    NEWS ABOUT COLORED PEOPLE

    NEWS ABOUT COLORED PEOPLE is an amusing look back to the mid-sixties. It focuses on the lives of three young African American girls during a very special Fourth of July holiday. Doris Marie,...
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  • A Little Poem A Little Poem
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    A Little Poem

    A poem about my friend Mary Brown Robinson, who walked the walk her whole life. She was painted on this earth in the colors of love.
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  • Beaux & Belles of England Beaux & Belles of England
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    Beaux & Belles of England

    "Beaux & Belles of England," written by Mary Robinson, is a fascinating look into the lives and stories of some of England's most intriguing and famous characters. Readers are transported to the...
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  • Before Brooklyn
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    Before Brooklyn

    In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three...
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  • Black Barons of Birmingham Black Barons of Birmingham
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    Black Barons of Birmingham

    A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and the players of the 1920s, the 1930s, and 1940 through 1947 (when Robinson broke the...
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  • Sports Case Studies Sports Case Studies
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    Sports Case Studies

    Combating Racism and Sexism in Sports: A Comprehensive Analysis of Historical Context, Case Studies, and Strategies for Change.This book delves into the importance of studying racism and sexism in...
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  • Invisible Ball of Dreams Invisible Ball of Dreams
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    Invisible Ball of Dreams

    Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson's momentous debut with the...
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  • Playing America's Game
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    Playing America's Game

    Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this...
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  • Bunnies & Burrows Fantasy Role Playing Game Bunnies & Burrows Fantasy Role Playing Game
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    Bunnies & Burrows Fantasy Role Playing Game

    Frog God Games has partnered with Dr. B. Dennis Sustare and Dr. Scott R. Robinson to return a venerable and influential piece of tabletop role-playing games to print. This second edition version...
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  • The Negro Leagues Chronology The Negro Leagues Chronology
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    The Negro Leagues Chronology

    Painstakingly researched and documented, this volume is a comprehensive, year-by-year reference work giving important--yet often obscure--dates in Negro League history. From the Negro Leagues'...
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  • Cooperstown's Back Door Cooperstown's Back Door
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    Cooperstown's Back Door

    For over 60 years, the color barrier excluded Black ballplayers from the major leagues, forcing them to form their own teams and leagues. After Jackie Robinson broke down that barrier, Black...
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  • Snapshots in AMERICAN Black History Snapshots in AMERICAN Black History
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    Snapshots in AMERICAN Black History

    Everyone Knows That Jackie Robinson Broke the Color Barrier in 1945!But who was the last Black baseball player to play in the Major Leagues before the color barrier was established in 1889?. Who...
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  • Two Pioneers
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    Two Pioneers

    As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth century, respectively, Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson are...
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    When Baseball Went White
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    When Baseball Went White

    The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947 is one most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War,...
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  • Race in American Sports Race in American Sports
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    Race in American Sports

    These essays critically examine the issue of race in college and professional sports, beginning with the effects of stereotypes on black female college athletes, and the self-handicapping of black...
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  • Late Innings Late Innings
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    Late Innings

    Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972 is the third volume in Dean A. Sullivan's successful series on the vibrant history of baseball. Through 114 contemporary documents, Late...
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  • Armando Marsans Armando Marsans
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    Armando Marsans

    Armando Marsans, who joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1911, was the first Cuban star of the major leagues. Events in baseball have often mirrored America's social development--Jackie Robinson's...
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  • I Llama Ewe I Llama Ewe
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    I Llama Ewe

    Friendship comes in all shapes and sizes as Llama and Ewe discover in I Llama Ewe, a delightful, rhyming, children's story that teaches us we don't have to be the same to be loved. It's through...
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  • Where They Ain't
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    Where They Ain't

    In the 1890s, the legendary Baltimore Orioles of the National League sic under the tutelage of manager Ned Hanlon, perfected a style of play known as "scientific baseball," featuring such innovations...
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  • Future FLOTUS? Future FLOTUS?
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    Future FLOTUS?

    Haddie Robinson has no time for dating. So, how does she end up as a contestant on the hottest reality TV dating show? President Jackson Cashe is trying to run a newly separated country while...
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  • Chadwick Boseman
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    Chadwick Boseman

    A profound remembrance of an extraordinary life cut short,celebratingChadwick Boseman's brilliance on screen as well as his rich existence as a generous friend, family member, and activist.Chadwick...
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    Claimed
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    Claimed

    Claimed (1920) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Using her well-known pseudonym, Gertrude Barrows Bennett published some of the twentieth century's greatest science fiction stories and...
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  • The Cruise of the Widgeon The Cruise of the Widgeon
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    The Cruise of the Widgeon

    Join yachting enthusiast Charles E. Robinson on an exhilarating 700-mile journey across the seas, from Swanage to Hamburg, on his trusty ten-ton yawl, the Widgeon. With vivid descriptions of the...
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  • Arkansas Cookery Arkansas Cookery
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    Arkansas Cookery

    Church and community cookbooks are a great southern tradition. The venerable collections of recipes gathered and shared grow into treasured possessions handed down through families, the go-to for...
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  • The Makings of Heroes The Makings of Heroes
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    The Makings of Heroes

    Flamboyant baseball owner Bill Veeck always claimed that he came very close to integrating baseball in 1943 -- four years before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947. Veeck's scheme was to...
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  • Philip, Duke of Wharton Philip, Duke of Wharton
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    Philip, Duke of Wharton

    Learn about the life and times of one of the most colorful figures of 18th-century England, Philip, Duke of Wharton. Robinson's book offers a comprehensive biography of Wharton, from his rise to...
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  • The Virgin's Bower, Clematis The Virgin's Bower, Clematis
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    The Virgin's Bower, Clematis

    This beautiful book is a guide to the cultivation and appreciation of clematis, particularly the Virgin's Bower variety. William Robinson shares his expert knowledge of these beautiful climbing...
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  • American Original
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    American Original

    Hailed by The New York Times as "America's Aristophanes," Will Rogers was one of this century's most astute and beloved humorists. If as he often remarked, he never met a man he didn't like, it is...
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  • Willie Wells Willie Wells
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    Willie Wells

    2008 - Robert Peterson Recognition AwardWillie Wells was arguably the best shortstop of his generation. As Monte Irvin, a teammate and fellow Hall of Fame player, writes in his foreword, "Wells...
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  • Mattie V1 Mattie V1
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    Mattie V1

    Mattie V1: A Stray (1864) is a novel written by Frederick William Robinson. The book tells the story of a young girl named Mattie who is abandoned by her mother and left to fend for herself on the...
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