Re: Lester Rodney

[Jacob Levich <jlevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:33 PM 10/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:

Footnote to this story: In 1949 Jackie Robinson appeared as a friendly
witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee and denounced the
Communist Party, Paul Robeson, and civil rights radicals. This propaganda
exercise was arranged to counter Robeson's widely quoted remarks to the
effect that American Blacks were rightly unenthusiastic about fighting in
US imperialist wars. There's gratitude for ya.

jake



> For nearly a quarter of a century, Lester Rodney was the sports columnist
> and sports editor for The Daily Worker, the largest and most influential
> Communist newspaper in the U.S. For more than a decade he was one of the
> leading agitators for the breaking of baseball's color barrier. In the
> 1940s, he became an intriguing footnote to the signing of Jackie Robinson
> and other black ballplayers.




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