19441776 Club
Robinson refuses to move to the back of a Fort Hood bus; MPs are called
The Army second lieutenant, sitting beside a fellow officer's wife, ignores the driver's order and now faces charges that include public drunkenness.
In the summer of 1944, three years before he ever put on a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, Second Lieutenant Jackie Robinson was fighting a different battle at Fort Hood, Texas. On July 6, returning from the colored officers club, he sat down next to a fellow officer's wife and refused the bus driver's order to move to the back. Military police were called, and Robinson was ultimately charged with two counts of insubordination during questioning, after an initial round of multiple charges (including public drunkenness) was reduced. An all-white panel of nine officers acquitted him in August 1944, in a court-martial that never made it into most baseball history books…
