This photograph of Jackie Robinson (second from the left), taken by P. H. Polk, preserves a Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) mass meeting that took place on the second anniversary of start of the TCA’s Crusade for Citizenship, on June 23, 1959. The crusade was a voter registration and civil rights campaign that started in 1957 to fight Senate Bill 291, which gerrymandered the city limits to remove the black voter population from the city. The meeting started with a devotion from T.H. Brown and remarks from Professor Frank Toland (far right). Toland gave a brief history of the Crusade for Citizenship in Tuskegee as part of his remarks. The Mount Olive Senior Choir led the music, followed by the financial appeal from W.C. Patton, and W.P. Mitchell introduced the main speaker for the night’s meeting. The Brooklyn Dodgers’ baseball star Jackie Robinson gave a speech in support of the TCA’s crusade and praised the example that the Tuskegee movement was setting for the country. This meeting was recorded on a 7-inch reel-to-reel and digitized by the Tuskegee University Archives. A recording of the event can be heard on the Tuskegee University Archives website and in the chapel collection on Shared Shelf. Uploaded by Jared McWilliams and Khandice Lofton.