Books

Charles, George. Civil Rights, The Struggle For Black Equality. San Diego, CA Lucent Books. 2001. 

This book involves many people who fought for rights.  Martin Luther King is definitely mentioned in it.  The book is mainly about how the Jim Crow Laws affected the black community. 

Dingle, Derek T.. First in the Field. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, Milestone Media, Inc., 1998.

This book gave a great timeline of all the black accomplishments in sports, starting from when they won a croquet game to Michael Jordan. 

Duckett, Alfred. I Never Had It Made. Longman Canada Limited, Toronto, 1972.

A wonderful autobiography including a recorded an interview with Jackie. This was a great primary source covering all of Jackie Robinson's life including his perspective on the challenges he faced.

Grabowski, John. Baseball Heroes, Jackie Robinson. New York, New York: James Carlton Associates, 1991.

This short book goes over Jackie's life before and after baseball in short detail but gives a lot of detail to his career. We learned that Jackie's team in his first year of Minor Leagues won the championship.

Rudeen, Kenneth. Jackie Robinson.Thomas Y. Crowell, New York Crowell Biographies, 1971

This book offers a chronology of Jackie's life and also offers great detail in quick ways without going overboard.

Videos

 Burns, Ken; Baseball-- Sixth Inning The National Pastime, Turner Home Entertainment                                                                                                       

This is one of nine tapes featuring Ken Burns entire history of baseball, from it beginnings in the 1700's to present times.  This tape focuses on the 1940's, specifically on the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson entrance into baseball.

Websites

  The Library of Congress. Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson, [Online} Available http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jr1957.html, October 19, 1998

This website is dedicated specifically to the integration of baseball.  Much of the information about Jackie Robinson's life after baseball, focused on the Civil Rights Movement, can be found here.

National Archives and Records Administration, Digital Classroom{Online}Available  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/jackie_robinson.html ,  November 12, 2002

From this website we located several direct quotes of Jackie Robinson and imported various documents, especially letters from Robinson to various presidents in the 1960's and 1970's.

 Sportsjones, Baseball & Civil Rights: A War of Words in the Jackie Robinson Era {Online}Available http://www.sportsjones.com/sj/287.shtml, August 21, 2001

This site focuses only the civil rights struggle from a political point of view, especially the views of Jackie Robinson, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1950's and 1960's.

Dr. Jessie Carney Smith, Editor, The Gale Group, Jackie Robinson{Online}Available http://www.utexas.edu/students/jackie/, March 1, 1998 

This site had an excellent photo gallery that supplied many of the images that appear in this website.