{"id":2674,"date":"2019-01-31T08:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2019-01-29T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T22:15:53","slug":"jackie-robinson-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/jackie-robinson-100th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100th Birthday, Jackie Robinson!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Roosevelt &#8220;Jackie&#8221; Robinson, the first player to break the color barrier in baseball. His Major League debut occurred with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947 and his career as a professional ballplayer lasted just over nine years. <br><br>Jackie&#8217;s tremendous accomplishments can only be fully understood if we are clear-eyed about the racism that white people, from fellow Dodgers to baseball spectators to the United States military, subjected him to throughout his life.<br><br>We invite you take to take a deeper look at Jackie&#8217;s life and career through our exhibit &#8220;Against the Most Tremendous Odds,&#8221; which will be up through February on The Ames Library main floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/01\/Jackie-Robinson-Exhibit-Jan-Feb-2019-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/01\/Jackie-Robinson-Exhibit-Jan-Feb-2019-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/01\/Jackie-Robinson-Exhibit-Jan-Feb-2019-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/01\/Jackie-Robinson-Exhibit-Jan-Feb-2019.png 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Roosevelt &#8220;Jackie&#8221; Robinson, the first player to break the color barrier in baseball. His Major League debut occurred with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947 and his career as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/jackie-robinson-100th-birthday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":2677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,15],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights","tag-black-history","tag-exhibits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/01\/lunch-counter-protest.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}