"But as I write these words now I cannot stand and sing the National Anthem. I have learned that I remain a black in a white world." And, "There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free." -- born on this day in 1919, legendary baseball star Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier on April 15, 1947, with the Brooklyn Dodgers. A six time All-Star and 1952 inductee into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, Robinson was a star athlete at UCLA and in the Negro Leagues preceding his national fame with the Dodgers. Robinson's wife Rachel Robinson, who turns 99 later this year, has a record of accomplishments in her own right, once serving as Assistant Professor at Yale University's School of Nursing, and founding the Jackie Robinson Foundation, which has provided support for more than 1,000 minority students since its beginning in 1973.
