Instructional Video18:38
TED Talks

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Lessons from past presidents

12th - Higher Ed
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball.
Instructional Video10:14
Curated Video

The Jackie Robinson Story

K - 5th
Meet Jackie Robinson, the brave baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. In 1947, he became the first Black player to play in the major leagues, facing unfair treatment with courage and strength. Jackie...
Instructional Video10:13
Curated Video

Jackie Robinson For Kids

K - 5th
Learn about the famous Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player, Jackie Robinson, and his struggle against racial segregation and discrimination throughout his life.
Instructional Video6:44
Wonderscape

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Baseball's Color Barrier

K - 5th
This video explores the life of Jackie Robinson, the first Black Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Learn about his journey from a four-sport athlete to his groundbreaking debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, the...
Instructional Video1:19
The March of Time

1952: ROBINSON SPEAKS: MS Dodgers player Jack Roosevelt 'Jackie' Robinson (1919-1972) SOT saying when he came home from war he was lucky, went back to baseball, worried about nephew in Korea, quality job when comes home? How does he feel about FEPC?

12th - Higher Ed
MOT 1952: ROBINSON SPEAKS: MS Dodgers player Jack Roosevelt 'Jackie' Robinson (1919-1972) SOT saying when he came home from war he was lucky, went back to baseball, worried about nephew in Korea, quality job when comes home? How does he...
Instructional Video2:14
Curated Video

The Negro League Baseball: Shattering Segregation

9th - Higher Ed
Like much of American in the early 19th century, sports were segregated. But with the newly established Negro Baseball League, African American baseball players overcame racial segregation to claim the national pastime as their own.
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball

9th - 10th
Audio story offers a discussion of a book on baseball legend Jackie Robinson and how he became "a ballplayer with the guts not to fight back."