![]() ![]() ![]() "Jackie was in the middle of a racist headwind, he bucked the wind, he survived the wind, he threw everything at it," says Jackson. From champions of social justice, to legends of the music world, to all-time greats and up and coming athletes, each "Jackie to Me" story is a personal perspective on what Robinson means to them - and society. In February, we visited the Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder and president at the Chicago headquarters, to have him as one of a dozen participants in an ESPN series of firsthand reflections leading up to the 75th anniversary of Robinson breaking the Major League Baseball color barrier, April 15, 1947. And it's a quarter century since he returned to Riverside Church in New York, at ESPN's request, to revisit the passion and poignance of that homage. Jesse Jackson is 80 now, a half century removed from his powerful eulogy for Jackie Robinson. He steps gingerly and requires assistance.īut as he copes with Parkinson's disease, he's eager and insightful, expansive and inspiring. Jesse Jackson, from his eulogy for Jackie Robinson, Oct. ![]() "He helped us to ascend, from misery to hope, on the muscles of his arms and the meaning of his life." - Rev. ![]()
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