Jackie Robinson held America true to its promise, one at bat at a time

Jackie Robinson held America true to its promise, one at bat at a time

Fort Hood, Texas. July 1944. A young Black officer from the 761st “Black Panthers” Tank Battalion is getting his men ready for deployment to Europe. Despite the racial bias in the U.S. Army, he knew his men were more than ready to fight for liberty and send the German army back to Berlin. Then one day, he boards a military bus after finishing some exams. The driver tells him to go to the back, but he doesn’t move. He gets hauled in by military p…