‘Coming back is not easy’: Reggie Jackson recalls racism he faced in 1967 Alabama

A man wearing a blue ball cap and dark sunglasses.

During the broadcast of a Major League Baseball game in Birmingham, Ala., to honour the Negro Leagues, Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson offered up a raw remembrance of being barred from restaurants and hotels when he played in the minors in the 1960s.

CBC | World News

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