Jackie playing baseball for UCLA

(UCLA)

Jackie running track for UCLA

(UCLA)

Jackie playing basketball for UCLA

(UCLA)

Jackie and Rachel on their first date at the UCLA Homecoming dance

(Jackie Robinson Museum)

Jackie in his military uniform

(U.S. Army)

Jackie as a Brooklyn Dodger

(Edward Roth / Alamy)

Jackie sliding into a base

(Science History Images / Alamy)

The Robinson family

(AP)

Rachel and Jackie Robinson, the day he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

(Matty Zimmerman / AP)

Bill Clinton retiring the number 42 at the 50th anniversary of Jackie's introduction into the MLB

(Adam Nadel / AP)

Georgia:

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson

Episode sources:

1. “Jackie Robinson” (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon) 2016

2. “Rachel Robinson: Reflections of a Trailblazer” (NPR) 2010

3. “Jackie Robinson—Freedom Fighter“ (National Archives) 2022

4. “The Courtship of Rachel and Jackie Robinson”  by Sidney Carlson White (Jackie Robinson Museum) 2026

5. “This Day in Yankees History: Jackie Robinson calls out the Yankees’ racism” by Cooper Halpern (Pinstripe Alley) 2020

6. “An Afternoon of Jazz” (Jackie Robinson Museum) 2025