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Ken Burns UNUM
UNUM Short: Baseball
Season 2022
Episode 6
In 1947, a young student at Morehouse College named Martin Luther King, Jr. watched as Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball. In this UNUM Short, Ken Burns considers baseball's role in pulling us forward.
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