Which Brooklyn Dodgers player (1919–1972) appears on the list of notable residents of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and lodged and entertained in Overtown (Miami) alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston and Joe Louis before the neighborhood declined in the late 1950s?

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Jackie Robinson. Bedford–Stuyvesant and Overtown both claim Jackie Robinson in their cultural histories. He was a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player who lived from 1919 to 1972, and in Overtown he lodged and entertained alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston and Joe Louis before the area experienced serious economic decline from the late 1950s.