KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
A plaque honoring baseball legend Jackie Robinson that was vandalized in Georgia is coming to Kansas Metropolis’s Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Missouri to be placed on show.
The signal was erected in 2001 exterior the birthplace of Robinson close to Cairo, Ga. Group members there found final 12 months that somebody had shot the plaque a number of occasions.
Curator and museum vp Ray Doswell informed the Kansas Metropolis Star that displaying the defaced marker is a chance to show the general public about Robinson’s story and fight hate. Robinson broke Main League Baseball’s coloration barrier in 1947 when he grew to become the league’s first Black participant.
Robinson’s hometown changed the broken marker, with assist from the league, and added one other marker at a library final week.
The vandalized marker is slated to go on show round mid-April, after a show case is constructed and spot secured within the museum, to coincide with the museum’s celebration of the seventy fifth anniversary of Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The plaque is predicted to be completely loaned to the Kansas Metropolis, Mo., museum for normal show.
Museum group engagement supervisor Kiona Sinks stated in a tweet that the vandalized marker will “function a reminder that the ugliness of America’s previous persists to today.”
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