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BLACK MEDIA, JACKIE ROBINSON DEFIED NFL COLOR LINE
Long before he made history with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Jackie Robinson was a nationally-known football player who led the UCLA football team to the school’s first undefeated season in 1939. But 1940 for Robinson and the Bruins was another story. Gone were Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, the Bruin stars who would eventually re-integrate the NFL and who Robinson teamed with in 1939 to elevate the UCLA football program to unprecedented heights. And to make matters worse, UCLA head coach Babe Horrell had failed to make up for those vacancies in recruiting, leaving Robinson on an island.
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VICTIMS OF NFL COLOR LINE WERE NUMEROUS, UNFORGETTABLE
The desegregation of Major League Baseball by Jackie Robinson in 1947 is one of the most prominent events in the popular historical narrative of the United States. And in the 75 years that the story of the erasure of baseball’s color line has been told, some of the great Negro …
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THE LIST OF BLACK PLAYERS EXCLUDED BY THE NFL COLOR LINE
The National Football League has formally acknowledged that from 1934 to 1945, NFL team owners secretly conspired to exclude Black football players from the league solely because of the color of their skin. But unlike some of the Negro League players who were victimized by the Major League Baseball color line and who later had their talent – and the injustice done to them – acknowledged by MLB and the public, none of the many victims of the NFL color line have been recognized as such.
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