Vermont Public Television and Rokeby Museum invite you to a screening of Ken Burns’s documentary, Jackie Robinson , on Sunday, November 6 at 2:00 pm.

Directed by Ken Burns, the film tells the story of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball when hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. An American icon, Robinson’s life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcended even his remarkable athletic achievements. “Jackie Robinson,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “was a sit-inner before sit-ins, a freedom rider before freedom rides.”

Karl Lindholm, emeritus professor of American Studies at Middlebury College, will be on hand for discussion following the screening. Professor Lindholm taught a perennially popular course on the “Negro Leagues,” as the African American baseball world was known. The integration of major league baseball had a devastating impact on black baseball.

The program is free to the public.

Jan 25, 2025, 10 AM to 3 PM

Jan 29, 2025, 7 to 8:15 PM

Feb 1, 2025, 10 AM to 1:30 PM