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Bridges says she could see 10-12 people in the room crying, and she thought, 'This isn't about me and him. Marshals escorting Bridges to the front door, away from a mob of anti-integration white protesters.Īlready a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal from Bill Clinton, Bridges went to the White House in 2011 and met the country's first Black president.Īs they stood before Rockwell's depiction, Barack Obama hugged her. A Norman Rockwell painting immortalized the scene of U.S.

'Jackie Robinson, as I see it,' says Ruby Bridges, 'is the father pretty much of the civil rights movement.'īridges' life as a civil rights activist and icon dates back to 1960, when she was six years old and famously became a New Orleans elementary school's first Black pupil. King identified with him very much and he with Dr. 'He made Blacks speaking out with authority more acceptable. 'He set the pace for the race and time immemorial,' is how Jackson describes the impetus and impact of Robinson's courage and success. bus and the rise to prominence of Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Education decision outlawing segregated schools, the refusal by Rosa Parks to be relegated to the back of a Montgomery, Ala. 'He disproved the theory of Black inferiority.'Īnd civil rights history followed, with the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. 'Jackie was in the middle of a racist headwind, he bucked the wind, he survived the wind, he threw everything at it,' says Jackson.

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In February, we visited the Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder and president at the Chicago headquarters, to have him as one of a dozen participants in an ESPN series of firsthand reflections leading up to the 75th anniversary of Robinson breaking the Major League Baseball color barrier, April 15, 1947. From champions of social justice, to legends of the music world, to all-time greats and up and coming athletes, each 'Jackie to Me' story is a personal perspective on what Robinson means to them - and society. And it's a quarter century since he returned to Riverside Church in New York, at ESPN's request, to revisit the passion and poignance of that homage. Jesse Jackson is 80 now, a half century removed from his powerful eulogy for Jackie Robinson. He steps gingerly and requires assistance.īut as he copes with Parkinson's disease, he's eager and insightful, expansive and inspiring. Jesse Jackson, from his eulogy for Jackie Robinson, Oct. 'He helped us to ascend, from misery to hope, on the muscles of his arms and the meaning of his life.' - Rev.

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