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But a form titled “Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, Publication Review” was banned from Death Row because “It contains material that a reasonable person would construe as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender disruption such as strikes or riots." Two pages were specifically mentioned. Page 44 includes a quote from Jackie Robinson’ s autobiography referring to the blatant racism he suffered early in his rookie season: “I felt tortured and | tried to just play ball and ignore the insults but it was really getting to me. For one wild and rage-crazed moment | thought, ‘To hell with Mr. Rickey’ s noble experiment. To hell with the image of the patient black freak | was supposed to create.’ | could throw down my bat, stride over to that Phillies dugout, grab one of those white sons of bitches, and smash his teeth in with my despised black fist. Then | could walk away from it all.” And page 55 includes a passage about Jack Johnson’ s defeat of the “Great White Hope,” Jim Jeffries: “Johnson was faster, stronger and smarter than Jeffries. He knocked Jeffries out with ease. After Johnson’ s victory, there were race riots around the country in Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas and Washington, D.C. Most of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015283