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Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in…
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Three years before Jackie Robinson desegregated Major League Baseball in 1947, he took another stand for civil rights.
While training with the 761st Tank Battalion at Camp Hood in Texas, Robinson refused the order of a civilian bus driver to move to the back of the bus, as well as the demand from a white captain (his superior officer) that he follow the bus driver’s direction. This book ably tells the story of this little-known event and the court-martial of Robinson that followed.
Robinson was acquitted, but his court-martial kept him from being deployed to Europe with the 761st, service…
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