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5 de ago. de 2021 · ROBINSON’S COURT-MARTIAL took place at Camp Hood on August 2, 1944, before nine officers, ranging in rank from captain to colonel. The trial transcript gives no detailed information about the judges, but historian Adam Kama has determined that two were African American.
Robinson faced a General Court-Martial. Had he been found guilty, the whole course of black participation in professional baseball and every other professional sport, as well as the modern...
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson is a 1990 American drama film directed by Larry Peerce and written by L. Travis Clark, Steve Duncan, Clay Frohman and Dennis Lynton Clark. The film stars Andre Braugher, Daniel Stern, Ruby Dee, Stan Shaw, Paul Dooley and Bruce Dern.
After four and a half hours of testimony, the court-martial tribunal composed of nine Army officers acquitted 2nd Lt. Robinson on all charges. Three years later, Robinson became one of the most famous athletes in history when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, racially integrating Major League Baseball for the first time.
25 de jan. de 2024 · American Military History. Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson Was Court-Martialed for Refusing to Move to the Back of a Bus. Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodger uniform in 1950....
13 de fev. de 2022 · A few years earlier, while in the U.S. military, Robinson endured a life-altering situation—an unexpected court-martial. If Robinson had been found guilty of any charges from his court-martial, he would have been presented with a dishonorable discharge.
Volume. 35. Issue. 5. ON JULY 6, 1944, Jackie Robinson, a twenty-five-year-old lieutenant, boarded an Army bus at Fort Hood, Texas. Sixteen months later he would be tapped as the man to break baseball’s color barrier, but in 1944 he was one of thousands of blacks thrust into the Jim Crow South during World War II.
