Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long introduce Robinson to middle school readers with “Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter.”
Jackie Robinson is justly celebrated for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier and then racking up Hall of Fame statistics for a decade while leading the Brooklyn Dodgers to six National League pennants and their first World Series title.
Williams, the former chief historian of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and Long, who has written and edited previous books on Robinson, met after both appeared in Ken Burns’ documentary “Jackie Robinson.” Robinson spent quite a bit of his life fighting police violence and it’s easy for us to see Robinson standing with the Black Lives Matter movement. We believe that Robinson standing up against racial injustice will really connect with our younger audience.
Q. The book doesn’t shy away from the racist language he faced. Were you hesitant to include that in a book for kids? Q. You dive into his Civil Rights work with Martin Luther King Jr. and especially the student protests he helped lead, but since Robinson started out as a Republican, you also explain his deteriorating relationships with Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater. Were you worried that the politics would feel like ancient history to your readers?
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