A shot-riddled historical marker from Jackie Robinson’s hometown of Cairo, Georgia, and the severed cleats from a bronze Robinson statue in Wichita are both on display at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
They’re spread around other historical artifacts from a period when Black baseball players refused to surrender their love of the game to racial discrimination and segregation. But unlike those weathered jerseys, black-and-white photographs, faded newspaper clippings and other aged memorabilia from a monument to generations past, the Robinson items are from incidents that occurred this decade.
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