jackie robinson
IPA: dʒˈækirɑbʌnsʌn
Root Word: Jackie Robinson
noun
- Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
- Robert Jackson Robinson (April 26, 1927 – February 8, 2022), nicknamed "Jack" or "Jackie", was an American Baptist pastor, theologian and college basketball player who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
- (born May 20, 1955) an American former professional basketball player.
- John Allan Robinson (10 August 1917 – 30 July 1972) was an English footballer and player-coach.
- the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era.
- a Jamaican singer, best known as the lead vocalist with The Pioneers, but who has also recorded solo material both under his own name, and under the pseudonym Harry Hippy.
- a 2016 American television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns.