color line
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Robinson broke baseball’s color line and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Robinson broke baseball’s color line on April 15, 1947, when he took the field in a game at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Jackson is many of us right now on both sides of the color line.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
His manager was Spider Jorgensen, whose big league debut in 1947 had been somewhat overshadowed by teammate Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s color line that day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
But because the danger was so grave, hardly any Negro students dared to cross the color line.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
