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Little-known story about Jackie Robinson. Food for thought …

#OnThisDay July 6, 1944—After sitting on a bus next to a fair-skinned Black woman, Second Lieutenant Jackie Robinson is arrested in Camp Hood, Texas, for refusing to move to the back of a desegregated military bus. He is charged with insubordination, disturbing the peace, refusal to obey a superior’s order, insulting a civilian woman, and conduct unbecoming an officer. Robinson is court-martialed, and on August 2, 1944, acquitted of all charges. Instead of joining his unit in Europe, Robinson requests to leave the military.

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