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This book tells the story of Jackie Robinson's life from his battles with prejudice as a youth to his emergence as a tireless champion of racial justice after his retirement from baseball. It also tells of the key people who nurtured and supported him in difficult times: his mother, Mallie; his wife, Rachel; and Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey, the man who was determined to integrate the “national pastime.” Kit contains ten copies of the book and one CD-ROM from the Start-to-Finish series Overcoming the Odds: Sports Biographies. Gold Level (RL 2-3) Publisher GR level L. Lexile 720. IL 6-12.Reference KM 8816 for use with this kit. | |