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The Negro Leagues

Season 1 | 1m 06s

Learn how Jackie Robinson entered the Negro Leagues, playing for the Kansas City Monarchs. In this clip, Buck O’Neil recounts when the team bus stopped at a filling station in Oklahoma, and the station attendant stated that the restroom was "for whites only.” Robinson told the attendant “No restroom, no gas.” Fearing the loss of a large sale of gasoline, the attendant agreed to let them use it.

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Watch Part II of Jackie Robinson, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon.
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