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The Jackie Robinson Story: Ken Burns Documentary Captures the Man and the Movement

The Ken Burns documentary airing on PBS this week demonstrates how the fight to break baseball’s racial barrier went beyond Robinson’s personal heroism and rested on a broad political movement.

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