Videocassette release of the 1950 motion picture. "1704." Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Louise Beavers, Minor Watson, Richard Lane, Harry Shannon, Ben Lessy, Bill Spaulding, Billy Wayne.
Summary:
An autobiobraphical account of Robinson's journey through the Jim Crow sports establishment to baseball's major leagues. Robinson plays himself in a film that frames vignettes of racial prejudice against the personal courage of the first baseball player to break the color barrier in the Major Leagues.
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