“One thing I learned from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is he said, ‘Don’t judge a person by the colour of their skin, but the content of their character.’ And there’s a lot of truth to that.”
O'Ree was the first Black athlete to play in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins in 1958. He’s referred to as the ‘Jackie Robinson of ice hockey’ for breaking the Black colour barrier in the sport. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018.
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