Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Jackie Robinson papers, 1934-2012

Title

• Jackie Robinson papers, 1934-2012

Summary

• Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, fan mail, speeches, writings, congressional testimony, baseball contracts, subject files, financial and legal records, military records, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Robinson's career as a baseball player and corporate executive, and to his participation in political activities, religious and civic organizations, the civil rights movement, and media affairs. When Jackie Robinson began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he broke the unwritten racial color line that had existed in major league baseball since the late nineteenth century, and a significant portion of the collection is devoted to his pioneering efforts in this regard. Topics also include the Albany movement, African independence movement, and economic development in the African-American community. Includes a May 1958 letter from Robinson to President Dwight D. Eisenhower responding to the president's appeal for "patience" on the issue of civil rights. Other correspondents include Buzzie Bavasi, Roy Campanella, Happy Chandler, Charles Dressen, Alfred Duckett, Arthur Mann, Ralph Norton, Walter F. O'Malley, Joseph L. Reichler, and Branch Rickey.
• Individuals represented include Chester Bowles, Barry M. Goldwater, W. Averell Harriman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kenneth B. Keating, Robert F. Kennedy, Adam Clayton Powell, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Carl Thomas Rowan, and Malcolm X. Organizations represented include the African American Students Foundation, American Committee on Africa, Chock Full O'Nuts, Freedom National Bank, New York, N.Y., Jackie Robinson Foundation, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, New York Giants, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the U.S. Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Names

• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972

Headings

• -  Bavasi, Buzzie--Correspondence
• -  Bowles, Chester,--1901-1986
• -  Campanella, Roy,--1921-1993--Correspondence
• -  Chandler, Happy,--1898-1991--Correspondence
• -  Dressen, Charles,--1894-1966--Correspondence
• -  Duckett, Alfred--Correspondence
• -  Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Correspondence
• -  Goldwater, Barry M.--(Barry Morris),--1909-1998
• -  Harriman, W. Averell--(William Averell),--1891-1986
• -  Humphrey, Hubert H.--(Hubert Horatio),--1911-1978
• -  Johnson, Lyndon B.--(Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973
• -  Keating, Kenneth B.--(Kenneth Barnard),--1900-1975
• -  Kennedy, Robert F.,--1925-1968
• -  Mann, Arthur,--1901-1963--Correspondence
• -  Norton, Ralph,--active 1946-1947--Correspondence
• -  O'Malley, Walter,--1903-1979--Correspondence
• -  Powell, Adam Clayton,--1908-1972
• -  Reichler, Joseph L.,--1915-1988--Correspondence
• -  Rickey, Branch,--1881-1965--Correspondence
• -  Rockefeller, Nelson A.--(Nelson Aldrich),--1908-1979
• -  Rowan, Carl T.--(Carl Thomas),--1925-2000
• -  X, Malcolm,--1925-1965
• -  United States.--Congress.--House.--Committee on Un-American Activities
• -  African American Students Foundation
• -  American Committee on Africa
• -  Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
• -  Chock Full O'Nuts
• -  Freedom National Bank (New York, N.Y.)
• -  Jackie Robinson Foundation
• -  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• -  National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
• -  New York Giants (Baseball team)
• -  Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• -  African Americans
• -  African Americans--Economic conditions
• -  Baseball
• -  Business
• -  Civil rights--United States
• -  Civil rights movements
• -  Mass media
• -  Race discrimination
• -  Africa--Politics and government--20th century
• -  United States--Politics and government--20th century
• -  United States--Race relations
• -  United States--Social life and customs--20th century

Notes

• -  Arranged in nine series. Series 1: Baseball File, 1945-2000; Series 2: Civil Rights, 1947-1990; Series 3: Political File, 1949-1986; Series 4: Business and Corporate File, 1952-1981; Series 5: Religious and Civic Activities, 1951-2001; Series 6: Subject File, 1953-1999; Series 7: Speeches and Writings, 1934-1999; Series 8: Miscellany, 1942-1998; and Series 9: 2023 Addition, 1954-2012.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Jackie Robinson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Gift, Rachel Robinson, 2001.
• -  Gift and transfer, 2015-2022.
• -  Phonograph recording transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
• -  Related collection: Arthur Mann papers. Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
• -  Related collection: Branch Rickey papers. Available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
• -  Baseball player, civil rights leader, and corporate executive. Full name: Jack Roosevelt Robinson.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003031

Medium

• 7,000 items.
• 17 containers.
• 6.6 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm2001084832

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm2001084832

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record