How is it that the party of Lincoln became anathema to black voters? It’s a messy story, exemplified in the doomed friendship between Richard Nixon and his fellow Republican, Jackie Robinson.

Vice President Richard Nixon shakes hands with former baseball star Jackie Robinson in 1960.
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