... Jacksonville. The Robinsons struggled to sleep in reclining seats near the back of the bus, but at an unknown hour in the middle of the night, along a lonely stretch of Florida, the Robinsonswere ... declined to consider crimes:beatings, shootings, and firebombs tossed into bedroomwindows of black families in the middle of the night.At the close of World War II, no major nation in the ... told that they had to move into the very last row of the bus, where the seats did not recline. White peoplewanted the seats they were in. Jackie Robinson’s suitlapels were beginning to curl...