“Coming back here is not easy. The racism…when I played here… The difficulty of going through different places where we traveled,” the Hall of Fame baseball player continued. “People said to me… ‘You think you’re a better person, you think you won when you played here and conquered?’ I said, you know, I would never want to do it again. I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and say ‘(the n-word), you can’t eat here.’ I would go to a hotel and they would say ‘that (n-word) can’t stay here.’”

A white couple allowed Jackson to stay in their apartment three or four nights a week for more than a month and a half — until a white mob threatened to burn the entire complex down if he didn’t leave. The team visited a country club for a welcome home dinner. They were told “that (n-word)” can’t come in here.

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