Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The end of the Age of Europe, the acceleration of the challenge to white supremacy, and the move of the American Empire to the center of the world-historical stage all occurred between March and June of 1947. #2 Jackie Robinson was a great American hero who refused to be a mythical hero. He was honest about himself as a human being, and he was loved by blacks and whites alike. He railed against the absurdities of white racism and the seductive security of black xenophobia. #3 Robinson's life was an example of the black and human Love Supreme—the same moral and spiritual ideal toward which Martin Luther King, Jr. , Fannie Lou Hamer, and John Coltrane asked us to aspire.