Rachel Robinson
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 Rachel Robinson facts

• She was born in Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met Robinson in 1941 prior to his leaving UCLA when his baseball eligibility ran out
• She graduated from UCLA June 1, 1945, with a bachelor's degree in nursing
• Rachel and Robinson married on February 10, 1946, the year before he broke into the big leagues
• Their son Jackie Robinson, Jr
• (1946–1971) was born in November 1946
• The Robinsons would later have a daughter, Sharon, born 1950, and another son, David, born 1952
• After Jackie Robinson's retirement from baseball following the 1956 season, Rachel Robinson further pursued her nursing career, obtaining a master's degree in psychiatric nursing from New York University,
• She worked as a researcher and clinician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Department of Social and Community Psychiatry, a position she held for five years
• She then became an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Nursing and later the Director of Nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center
• In 1972, she incorporated the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation, a real estate development company specializing in low- to moderate-income housing, and served as president for ten years