1. Minorities In Sports
The following Year, Robinson became the first African American athlete to play a professional sport. Not only did he play baseball, he received Rookie of the Year honors, which is given to the most outstanding first year player. ... Strode and Washington became the first African American players in the modern National Football League. The National Basketball Association followed closely when it added its first African American in 1950. ... Are our beliefs in twenty-first century America still so archaic that we cannot hire a person with a skin tone other than white or someone other than Eu...
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