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Where've You Gone, Jackie Robinson?
Harris, Mark | May 15, 1995 issue

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Midsummer 1949, age 30, playing his third year of baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was summoned by the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify on the question of whether black Americans would fight a war against Russia. The committee chairman hoped that Robinson would "give the lie" to Paul Robeson, actor, singer, beloved of the international left, who had said that African Americans would not fight Russians. Robinson denied that he, Robeson or anyone could speak for 15 million people.

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BASEBALL; SPORTS; BALL games; AFRICAN Americans; ETHNIC groups; UNITED States
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