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Black Champions: Interview with Mack Robinson

Olympic track and field athlete reflects on the exclusion of African Americans from professional sports and the role his brother Jackie played in changing that.

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Excerpt from an interview with Mack Robinson conducted for a documentary entitled "Black Champions." He discusses segregation in sports and his younger brother, baseball player Jackie Robinson. The full interview, in which he recounts competing in track and field and winning silver at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, is available through the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.