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 found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson already in 1944 a celebrated athlete in track and football and in a few years the man who would break Major League Baseball&rsquo;s color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in Jackie Robinson&rsquo;s pre-MLB career. Had he been found guilty he would not have been the man who broke baseball&rsquo;s color barrier. Had the incident never happened he would&rsquo;ve gone overseas with the Black Panther tank battalion&mdash;and who knows what after that. Having survived this crucible of unjust prosecution as an American soldier Robinson&mdash;already a talented multisport athlete&mdash;became the ideal player to integrate baseball.<BR /><BR />This is a dramatic story deeply engaging and enraging. It&rsquo;s a Jackie Robinson story and a baseball story but it is also an army story as well as an American story.
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