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Lester Rodney
Lester Rodney, September 2007, photograph by Byron LaGoy
Born
(1911-04-17)April 17, 1911
Manhattan, New York, United States
Died
(2009-12-20)December 20, 2009 (aged 98)
Walnut Creek, California
Occupation
Journalist
Lester Rodney (April 17, 1911 – December 20, 2009) was an American journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball as sports writer for the Daily Worker.
LesterRodney (April 17, 1911 – December 20, 2009) was an American journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball as sports writer for...
Contributors to its pages included Robert Minor and Fred Ellis (cartoonists), LesterRodney (sports editor), David Karr, Richard Wright, John L. Spivak, Peter Fryer...
journalist LesterRodney, the moment of solidarity between Robinson and Reese in Cincinnati sparked a gradual decline in vile fan behavior by 1948. Rodney reported...
(1943–), Washington pundit and U.S. News & World Report contributor LesterRodney (1911–2009), journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball...
Biography Literature California "Rodney King to marry juror from LA police beating case". BBC News. September 9, 2010. Lester, Paul Martin (2018). Visual Ethics:...
J. R. Richard (2019) Jackie Robinson (2005) Rachel Robinson (2014) LesterRodney (2005) Pete Rose (2010) Vin Scully (2017) Rusty Staub (2018) Casey Stengel...
Silber's most recent book, Press Box Red, tells the story of sports editor LesterRodney, whose decade-long campaign in the pages of the Daily Worker helped...
2019). "Stories of Standards: Lester Leaps In by Lester Young". KUVO. Retrieved October 19, 2020. "The Prez, Lester Young", The African American Registry...
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winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961 (died 1997) April 17 – LesterRodney, journalist (died 2009) April 18 – Huntington Hartford, businessman...
woman, has ever set foot on one of these courts", wrote journalist LesterRodney at the time. "In many ways, it is even a tougher personal Jim Crow-busting...
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