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The City Of Daytona Beach
In Sincere Appreciation Recognizes
The Following Major Contributions For The
Jackie Robinson Riverwalk
And Ball Park Museum:
County Of Volusia
ECHO Grant Program
The Department Of State
Division Of
Historical…
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Wendell Smith, (Sports Columnist) And Billy Rowe, (Photographer) Worked For The Pittsburgh
Courier, Once The Country's Most Widely Circulated Black Newspapers With A National Circulation Of Almost 200,000.The Courier Sought To Empower African Ame…
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 3i, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, the grandson of a slave and the son of a sharecropper. In 1920, jack's father, Jerry, abandoned his wife, Mallie, and their five children, Edgar, Frank, Mack, Willa Mae, and …
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Rachel Isum and Jack Roosevelt Robinson met in 1941, when she was a freshman-nursing student and he a senior and star athlete at the University of California, Los Angeles. They became engaged as Jackie went into the Army as a private and left as a…
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On Thursday February 28, 1946, two weeks after their marriage, Rachel and Jackie boarded an American Airlines propeller flight from Los Angeles to Daytona Beach. The flight's first stop was at New Orleans and arrived on Friday March 1st about 7:00…
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Jackie Robinson excelled in all sports. On May 7, 1938, while at Pasadena Junior College, he set a National Junior College record in long jump with a jump of 25 feet 6½ inches. This record was previously held by Jackie's older brother Mack, w…
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"When I got home, I felt as though I had won some kind of victory. I had a new opinion of the people in the town (Daytona Beach). I knew of course, that everyone wasn't pulling for me to make good, but I was sure that the whole world wasn't l…
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In 1945, Jackie Robinson was a Negro League standout in his rookie year with the Kansas City Monarchs, batting .387. While Jackie excelled in the field and base paths he was not considered the best compared to such renowned players as Satchel Paig…
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As Billy Rowe, Chief Photographer For The Pittsburg Courier And Constant Companion During The Robinson's First Spring Training Related : "When The Royals Were Playing In (Sanford) Florida, Robinson Got A Hit, Stole Second, Went To Third On A …
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Just as carefully as Branch Rickey chose Jackie Robinson, he chose Daytona Beach as the site for his "noble experiment." Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College was born July 10, 1875, in Maysville, South Carolina. She was…