Virtual Memorial
Jackie Robinson
A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Jackie Robinson, remembered for Baseball, Civil rights, Sports history.
Why Jackie Robinson Is Remembered
Jackie Robinson is remembered for baseball, civil rights, sports history. This public memorial page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why the figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.
The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive biography, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.
A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm
This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Jackie Robinson.
The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.
Place Context
Brooklyn, New York, United States is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial because it is connected to Jackie Robinson's life, work, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.
Historical Context
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers signing Robinson heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s.
Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.
Photos
Front cover of Jackie Robinson comic book (issue #5). Shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn Dodgers cap; inset image shows Jackie Robinson covering a sli
Fawcett Publications, This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.00133 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still
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Photo of Jackie Robinson in his military uniform, during a visit to his Pasadena family home, c. 1943. This is a photo taken by a staff photographer of LOOK Magazine, and is part o
LOOK magazine, This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.00042 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still requir
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Publicity photo of Jackie Robinson as an ABC broadcaster for "Major League Championship Baseball".
ABC Television, (Original text : eBay item photo ), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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