Additional Resources 

A.  Literature 

Denenberg, Barry.  Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson. Scholastic Books, 1997.

Golenbock, Peter. Teammates. Voyager/HBJ, 1990.

 Lord, Bette Bao. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. Harper Trophy, 1986. 

Riley, James A.  The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Carroll and Graf Publishers, Inc. 1994.

 Robinson, Jackie and Robinson, Sharon. Jackie’s Nine: Jackie Robinson’s Values to Live By. Scholastic Trade, 2001.

Robinson, Jackie, as told to Alfred Duckett.  I Never Had It Made. Ecco Press, 1997.

 Robinson, Rachel.  Jackie Robinson:  An Intimate Portrait. Harry N. Abrams, 1996

B.  Web Links 

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
baseballhalloffame.org

 The Negro Leagues Museum
nlbm.com

 The Negro Leagues Baseball Players Association
nlbpa.com

The Library of Congress
/memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html

Interview with Peter Golenbock, author of the book “Teammates”
looseleafbookcompany.com/archives/0112/tr2.html

Civil Rights Timeline
wmich.edu/politics/mlk/

American Memory Collection
memory.loc.gov/ammemjrhtml/jrbib.html

Official Jackie Robinson Web Site
jackierobinson.com

Jackie Robinson Foundation
jackierobinson.org/aboutjackie/index.html

Other Lesson Plans Related to Jackie Robinson
teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3336.html

C.  Multi-Media Gallery 

1)    Video available at baseballhalloffame.org 

a)   Actor Gregory Gibson Kinney portraying Jackie Robinson 

b)   Pride and Passion documentary on the Negro leagues 

c)   Documentary on Jackie Robinson 

d)   Oral history interviews with Negro league veterans 

 2)  Recommended Movies for In-Class Viewing 

a)   A&E Biography Series: Jackie Robinson A&E Home Video, 1991 

b)  Baseball, A Film by Ken Burns: Shadow Ball, Inning 5 BMG Video Service, 1994 

c)  Kings on the Hill: Baseball’s Forgotten Men
San Pedro Productions, 1994 

3)    Photographs available at
 baseballhalloffame.org  

a)      Leroy “Satchel” Paige

b)      Josh Gibson

c)      Effa Manley

d)      Rube Foster

e)      James “Cool Papa” Bell

f)       Walter “Buck” Leonard

g)      Jackie Robinson with Branch Rickey

h)      Jackie Robinson in Montreal and
   Brooklyn uniforms

i)       Jackie Robinson as athlete at UCLA

j)       Jackie Robinson in Army uniform

k)      Jackie Robinson with Dodger teammates

l)       Jackie Robinson with Martin Luther King
   Jr.

m)    Jackie Robinson marching in Civil Rights   demonstration

n)      1924 Washington Senators

o)      1924 Kansas City Monarchs

p)      Recent World Championship team

q)      Moses Fleetwood Walker

r)       “Colored Waiting Room”

s)      Pittsburgh Crawfords by team bus

t)       Current African-American, Latino and Asian All-Stars

4)     Primary Source Documents available at
 baseballhalloffame.org

a)    Sample hate mail received by Jackie Robinson

b)    Jackie Robinson’s Hall of Fame plaque

c)    The Sporting News article, November 1, 1945

d)    The Sporting News article, April 23, 1947

e)    Cartoon from The Sporting News, January 26, 1949

f)     The Sporting News article, August 7, 1957

g)    Letter from Sen. John Kennedy to Jackie Robinson, July 1, 1960

h)    The Sporting News article, November 11, 1972

i)     New York Times article, April 6, 1997

D.  For Videoconferencing 

1)     Timeline Activity Page

2)     Blank map of United States