 The story focuses on the remarkable event that was the beginning of the civil rights movement long before Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1947 at Crossley Field in Cincinatti, Robinson endured racial taunts, jeers and death threats that would have broken the spirit of a lesser man. Reese, the captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers, walked over to his teammate, Robinson and embraced him in an event that not only silenced the crowd, but the nation.