First Class Citizenship The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson

"In First Class Citizenship, Jackie Robinson comes alive on the page for the first time in decades. The scholar Michael G. Long has unearthed a remarkable trove of Robinson's correspondence with - and personal replies from - such towering figures as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X., Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Barry Goldwater. These extraordinary conversations reveal the scope and depth of Robinson's effort during the 1950s and 1960s to rid America of racism."--BOOK JACKET.Robinson, Jackie is the author of 'First Class Citizenship The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson', published 2007 under ISBN 9780805087109 and ISBN 0805087109.