Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has released this video endorsing Norman Siegel for Public Advocate:

Jackie Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers marked the end of 60 years of segregation in major league baseball. He also helped found the Freedom National Bank, and the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

Norman Siegel, born in Brooklyn and currently living in Manhattan, has been a champion of civil liberties since 1968 when he worked with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Southern Justice & Voting Law Project. Norman Siegel was Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union from 1985-2000. He has also advocated and represented 9/11 Families, the Skyscraper Safety Campaign and Firefighters Families, the Transit Workers Union and the United Federation of Teachers in first amendment lawsuits, African American and Latino Police Officers in a racial discrimination lawsuit against NYC, New Yorkers against the extension of term limits and many other groups and individuals. Norman Siegel has been endorsed by Americans for Democratic Action, Democracy for NYC, the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, Park River Independent Democrats (Upper West Side), the Village Reform Democratic Club, the Grand Council of Guardians (an organization of African-American law enforcement officials), the New York Metro Area Postal Union (APWU, AFL-CIO), Audubon Reform Democratic Club (Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights), and Brooklyn Democrats for Change (Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Bath Beach and Gravesend), and the New York Community Council.