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Ken Burns’ Jackie Robinson Premiere (Morris)
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The Stevens County History Museum is partnering with Pioneer Public Television to sponsor an exclusive premiere of JACKIE ROBINSON -- a new documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon on Thursday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m.. The free event will be held at the Stevens County History Museum at 116 W. 6th Street in Morris. Refreshments will be served in honor of Pioneer Public Television’s 50th Anniversary. For more information contact Daren Lehne, Pioneer Community Relations Representative at 320-289-2622.
JACKIE ROBINSON tells the story of how Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color barrier and become one of the most beloved citizens in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame to speak out against the discrimination he saw on and off the field, angering fans, the press, and even teammates who had once celebrated him for “turning the other cheek.”
After baseball, he was a widely-read newspaper columnist, divisive political activist and tireless advocate for civil rights, who later struggled to remain relevant as diabetes crippled his body and a new generation of leaders set a more militant course for the civil rights movement.
JACKIE ROBINSON features interviews with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama; former Dodgers teammates Don Newcombe, Carl Erskine and Ralph Branca; writers Howard Bryant and Gerald Early; Harry Belafonte; Tom Brokaw; and Carly Simon. Jamie Foxx is the voice of Jackie Robinson, reading excerpts from his newspaper columns, personal letters and autobiographies.
The exclusive 40 minute advance screening will feature excerpts from the full four-hour program which will air on Pioneer Public TV on April 11 and 12. Pioneer is co-sponsoring this event as a way of saying “Thank You” to all the loyal members from the Morris area who have supported the station over the years. Pioneer began broadcasting from a one room school house south of Appleton back in 1966. Today the station has grown to become an award winning PBS station with a signal reaching more than 2.5 million people in parts of five states.
About Pioneer Public Television
Established in 1966, Pioneer Public TV is an award-winning, viewer-supported television station dedicated to sharing local stories of the region with the world. For more information visit: http://www.pioneer.org.
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JACKIE ROBINSON<br />
by Brandon from Selden, New York<br /> <a href="http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=J_robinson2_Selden_MS_US_08">http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=J_robinson2_Selden_MS_US_08</a><br />
Jackie Robinson is an important public figure. He was well known and very popular. I look up to him for his courage and persistence through the battle against discrimination. After ten years in MLB, Robinson retired. The NAACP named February 16, 1958 Jackie Robinson Day, in his memory. Robinson helped blaze the trail for the Civil Rights movement. Robinson also helped Martin Luther King, Jr. raise money for his organization....<br />
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Jackie Robinson and the Pattern of Jesus<br />
Article by David Mathis Topic: Racial Harmony April 11, 2013<br /> <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/jackie-robinson-and-the-pattern-of-jesus">http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/jackie-robinson-and-the-pattern-of-jesus</a><br />
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The Shared Faith of Robinson and Branch<br />
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Many tellings of the Robinson-Branch story omit the importance of their shared Christian faith, but a few biographers have endeavored to draw this out.<br />
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Robinson was a Christian [and] his Christian faith was at the very center of his decision to accept Branch Rickey’s invitation to play for the all-white Brooklyn Dodgers. . . . Branch Rickey himself was a Bible-thumping Methodist whose faith led him to find an African American ballplayer to break the color barrier. . . .[A]t the center of one of the most important civil rights stories in America [lies] two men of passionate Christian faith. (Metaxas, 109)<br />
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Branch’s strategy for de-segregation was “non-retaliation” — a precursor to the vision of non-violence to come later in the Civil Rights Movement. But it would not just do to try to follow Jesus’s pattern. Branch was looking for someone with deep faith and proven character. Nothing less than emotionally excruciating work lay ahead. When Branch and Robinson met for the first time to explore the possibility, Branch<br />
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Jackie Robinson a man of faith: Column<br />
Eric Metaxas 7:21 p.m. EDT April 11, 2013<br /> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/11/jackie-robinson-a-man-of-faith-column/2075367/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/11/jackie-robinson-a-man-of-faith-column/2075367/</a><br />
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For starters, Rickey himself was a "Bible-thumping Methodist" who refused to attend games on Sunday. He sincerely believed it was God's will that he integrate baseball and saw it as an opportunity to intervene in the moral history of the nation, as Lincoln had done.<br />
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...We know that Robinson's passionate sense of justice had gotten him into trouble earlier in life. But the patient mentoring of pastor Karl Downs convinced him that Christ's command to "resist not evil" wasn't a cowardly way out but a profoundly heroic stance.<br />
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When he met Rickey, Robinson was prepared for what lay ahead and agreed. But it was a brutally difficult undertaking. Robinson got down on his knees many nights during those first two years, asking God for the strength to continue resisting the temptation to fight back, or to say something he would regret...<br />
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The life and faith of Jackie Robinson<br />
March 1, 2011 By Steve Beard<br /> <a href="http://goodnewsmag.org/2011/03/the-life-and-faith-of-jackie-robinson/">http://goodnewsmag.org/2011/03/the-life-and-faith-of-jackie-robinson/</a><br />
".. In his youth Jackie came under the influence of a young minister in Pasadena. His name was Karl Everitt Downs, the 25-year old pastor at Scott Methodist Church where Jackie’s mother, Mallie, worshipped. - ...<br />
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“Downs became a conduit through which Mallie’s message of religion and hope finally flowed into Jack’s consciousness and was fully accepted there….Faith in God then began to register in him as both a mysterious force, beyond his comprehension, and as a pragmatic way to negotiate the world. A measure of emotional and spiritual poise such as he had never known at last entered his life.”<br />
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Robinson himself would say, “I had a lot of faith in God….There’s nothing like faith in God to help a fellow who gets booted around once in a while.”<br />
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