Jackie Robinson's daughter says Barack Obama's presidential victory is the greatest national event she has witnessed in her 58 years. To be clear, her father broke the color barrier in baseball in 1947, three years before she was born. But during her lifetime she marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., listened to her father speak publicly against Jim Crow and witnessed the United States put a man on the moon. Obama's victory, she said, transformed America, pumping hope into dead souls, leveling the playing field from the top down, showing the world America's commitment to equality. At her home in Apollo Beach, Fla., where she is recovering from recent heart surgery and finishing a...
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