The inscription on this historic figure’s tombstone reads” “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Frederick Douglass
- Jackie Robinson
- Rosa Parks
The inscription on this historic figure’s tombstone reads” “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
Jackie Robinson who endured much persecution as the first African-American player in American Major League Baseball. The Brooklyn Dodgers signed him in 1947. He died at age 53 in 1972, ten years after being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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