Branch Rickey : baseball : proving ground for civil rights
- Date
1959
- Summary
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Branch Rickey discusses one of the most famous highlights of his career: placing skill above racial and religious consideration and naming Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. He discusses the problems faced by Robinson during the early part of his career with the Brooklyn team and indicates how this talented sportsman handled the situations which arose.
- Contributors
WQED; Branch Rickey; Arthur Mann; Kenneth Blackburn
- Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
- Genres
Educational; Talk; Sports
- Subject
Baseball ; Discrimination in sports ; Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Physical Description
1 Film (0:28:32); 16mm
- Other Identifiers
IULMIA Film Database: 40000003111533; Other: GR00465080; MDPI Barcode: 40000003111533
Access Restrictions
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