For interracial advancement

For interracial advancement
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Title: For interracial advancement
Description:

Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson presenting honorary plaque to man in suit; location unknown. Caption on verso: "For Interracial Advancement: Jackie Robinson, star second basemen of the Dodgers, presents annual gold award of George Washington Carver Memoirial Institute to Lewis S. Rosenstiel, chariman of board of Schenley Industries, Inc., for establishing 'prejudice-free opportunity' in that company. Robinson was the recipient last year."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jan. 6, 1951; "Eagle Staff photo."
Title from caption on verso.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
African American baseball players
Businessmen
Award presentations
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: DODG 0966