Robinson, Jackie 1919-1972 creator mixed material monographic eng 7,000 17 6.6 Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, fan mail, speeches, writings, congressional testimony, baseball contracts, subject files, financial and legal records, military records, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Robinson's career as a baseball player and corporate executive, and to his participation in political activities, religious and civic organizations, the civil rights movement, and media affairs. When Jackie Robinson began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he broke the unwritten racial color line that had existed in major league baseball since the late nineteenth century, and a significant portion of the collection is devoted to his pioneering efforts in this regard. Topics also include the Albany movement, African independence movement, and economic development in the African-American community. Correspondents include Buzzie Bavasi, Roy Campanella, Happy Chandler, Charles Dressen, Alfred Duckett, Arthur Mann, Ralph Norton, Walter F. O'Malley, Joseph L. Reichler, and Branch Rickey. Individuals represented include Chester Bowles, Barry M. Goldwater, W. Averell Harriman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kenneth B. Keating, Robert F. Kennedy, Adam Clayton Powell, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Carl Thomas Rowan, and Malcolm X. Organizations represented include the African American Students Foundation, American Committee on Africa, Chock Full O'Nuts, Freedom National Bank, New York, N.Y., Jackie Robinson Foundation, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, New York Giants, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the U.S. Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities. Open to research. Phonograph recording transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Baseball player, civil rights leader, and corporate executive. Full name: Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003031 Bavasi, Buzzie Correspondence Bowles, Chester 1901-1986 Campanella, Roy 1921-1993 Correspondence Chandler, Happy 1898- Correspondence Dressen, Charles Correspondence Duckett, Alfred Correspondence Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 1909-1998 Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) 1891-1986 Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1911-1978 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard) 1900-1975 Kennedy, Robert F 1925-1968 Mann, Arthur (Arthur William) 1901- Correspondence Norton, Ralph Correspondence O'Malley, Walter F. (Walter Frank) 1903-1979 Correspondence Powell, Adam Clayton 1908-1972 Reichler, Joseph L 1915- Correspondence Rickey, Branch 1881-1965 Correspondence Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich) 1908-1979 Rowan, Carl T. (Carl Thomas) 1925-2000 X, Malcolm 1925-1965 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. African American Students Foundation. American Committee on Africa. Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) Chock Full O'Nuts. Freedom National Bank (New York, N.Y.) Jackie Robinson Foundation. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. New York Giants (Baseball team) Southern Christian Leadership Conference. African Americans African Americans Economic conditions Baseball Business Civil rights movements Mass media Race discrimination Africa Politics and government 20th century United States Politics and government 20th century United States Social life and customs 20th century Baseball players Civil rights leaders Executives mm2001084832 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003031 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003031.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003031 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003031.3 Open to research. DLC 011030 20260227111728.0 mm2001084832 eng