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Created: 2025-07-07 14:30:20 UTC

On this day in 1944, Lieutenant and baseball legend, Jackie Robinson boarded an Army bus and refused to sit at the back of the bus because of his race.

This led to a court martial & he was prohibited from being deployed overseas, thus he never saw combat action.

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