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On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the color carrier in major league baseball. Robinson dealt with threats, violence, and taunting with poise, eventually proving he belonged there and winning the title of Most Valuable Player after two years. After he left baseball in 1957, he served as a chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Freedom Fund Drive, later going on the join as a member of the Board of Directors.
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In 1958, Robinson was a honorary chairmen of the Youth March for Integrated Schools along with Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1958, Robinson wrote to President Eisenhower regarding civil rights.
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In 1962, Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and in 1963 he participated in King's March on Washington.
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In 1964, Robinson helped found the interracial Freedom National Bank in Harlem, for which he served as chairmen for the rest of his life.
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