

Who Broke the Color Barrier in Sports? (It's not who you might think)
By now, everyone knows the history: It was April 15, 1947, and first baseman Jackie Roosevelt Robinson makes his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club at Ebbets Field. As the first African American to play professional sports with white players, in the modern era, he would end 50 years of racial segregation in sports, end of story! But what many people don’t know is that it was the sport of Tennis, not Baseball that first allowed integrated play. I know that many tenn
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