Jesse Jackson: "We left crying, brokenhearted, trying to see Jackie Robinson"

The History Channel has a short video clip of Jesse Jackson remembering going to see the Dodgers play in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1949.

This is just part of what he has to say:

"The Dodgers were going to play at Meadowbrook Park ... To go and see Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, Campanella …Gil Hodges, Andy Pafko … the Dodgers … All the whites sat under the roof. The African-Americans sat on bleachers…

"Mom and Dad kept my brother and I out of school that day. It started to rain, ever so lightly… It rained a while and of course we got wet in our section. The umpires came out, touched home plate, first base, second .. The umpire touched third base, and it sunk. And daddy said, ‘They’re not gonna let them play today, because they cannot risk that caliber of ball player on this field.’ And then the umpire said, ‘game’s off.’” He just knew it. We never saw them. We left wet, crying, brokenhearted, trying to see Jackie Robinson."

Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, and Roy Campanella