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Jackie Robinson and the Importance of African American Role Models

Alton Waldon shares a childhood memory meeting Jackie Robinson at a shop in Brooklyn. Robinson treated Waldon and his friends to ice cream that day, and here Waldon recounts the meaningful experience of meeting a real hero who looked like them. 

Publisher
PBS Learning Media

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