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  2. Feb 27, 2024 · Listen Live. Jackie Robinson was the first Black player in Major League Baseball. But he was also the husband of Rachel Robinson — a distinguished professor of nursing who played an integral ...

  3. April 15, 1997. Rachel, President Clinton and MLB Commissioner Allan "Bud" Selig mark the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's historic entry into baseball with a nationally televised ceremony at Shea Stadium retiring his number "42" in perpetuity. JRF launches a $12 million endowment campaign with a $1 million gift from Major League Baseball.

  4. Jul 19, 2022 · USA TODAY. 0:00. 9:15. Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball trailblazer Jackie Robinson, celebrates her 100th birthday Tuesday. The former professor, nurse, leader in the civil rights movement...

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    Business leader, civil rights activist, professor, nurse, wife, and mother, Rachel Isum Robinson is a woman of enormous accomplishments, her own and those achieved jointly with her husband, Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Together the couple supported numerous c...

    Following the death of her husband in 1972, Mrs. Robinson incorporated the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation, which was founded to build and manage housing for people of moderate and low incomes. A year later, Mrs. Robinson created the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide college scholarships and l...

    A career nurse, Mrs. Robinson earned her masters degree in psychiatric nursing from New York University and worked as a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicines Department of Social and Community Psychiatry. Mrs. Robinson then became Director of Nursing for the Connecticut Mental Health Center and an Assistant Professor of Nursing at ...

    After years at the head of the Foundations board, Rachel Robinson stepped down as chairwoman in 1996. That same year, she authored Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait, published by Abrams Publishing Company. Mrs. Robinson has received numerous awards including the Candace Award for Distinguished Service from the National Coalition of 100 Black Wo...

    Robinson has two children, twelve grandchildren, three great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.

  5. Rachel Isum Robinson is a woman of enormous accomplishments, her own and those achieved jointly with her husband, Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Together the couple supported numerous causes, but particularly civil rights in and out of the sports sphere.

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  7. Jul 19, 2022 · Locker Room Talk. At 100, Rachel Robinson is still looking toward tomorrow with the Jackie Robinson Museum. The long-awaited opening is the continuation of not only keeping her husband’s legacy alive, but her determination and ferocity. By William C. Rhoden @RhodenRhoden8. July 19, 2022.

  8. Jul 19, 2022 · ESPN. For 50 years, Rachel Robinson has preserved the memory and legacy of her husband, Jackie Robinson. In celebration of her 100th birthday this July, her son David honors her activism and...

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