The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights during World War II
$42.98
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2022
Summary
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 1944 a celebrated athlete in track and football and in a few years the man who would break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in Jackie Robinson’s pre-MLB career. Had he been fou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811771917 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0811771911 |
| Author: | Michael Lee Lanning |
| Publisher: | Stackpole Books |
| Imprint: | Stackpole Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 146mm x 222mm |
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Michael Lee Lanning
Michael Lee Lanning, a graduate of Texas A&M, served over twenty years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a lieutenant colonel with the Senior Parachute Badge, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Ranger Tab, and Bronze Star. In Vietnam, he commanded an infantry platoon, a recon platoon, and a rifle company. His military career included service as a public-affairs officer for Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and similar work in the Department of Defense Public Affairs office. He has spoken at conferences on the African-American Soldier at the D-Day Museum and Tuskegee University and has appeared on NPR, CBS, and the History Channel.
He has written twenty-four nonfiction books on military history, sports, and health, with over 1.1 million copies of his books in print in fifteen countries and twelve languages. His previous books include the classic Vietnam, 1969-1970: A Company Commander’s Journal, which the New York Times called “one of the most honest and horrifying accounts of a combat soldier’s life to come out of the Vietnam War.”
A native of Texas, Lanning lives in Lampasas, Texas, just west of Fort Hood.
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