How Jackie Robinson broke the Color barrior
How did the civil rights movement effect Jackie Robinson? Jackie Robinson may not have been the best baseball player in the history of baseball but he was surly the most important. Without Jackie courage we would not have other great baseball players like: Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, or even Sammy Sosa. I hope in this essay you will get a better understanding for how the civil rights movement effected Jackie Robinson. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was a well brought up young man and got good grades. A little after Jackie's father who was a sharecropper left Georgia to be with another woman. when Jackie completed high school the rest of the family moved to Pasadena, California because of finical problems. Jackie attended Pasadena Junior College now known as Pasadena City College.as an under graduate Jackie excelled in four sports: Football, Track, Baseball, and basketball. The next year at his college he set a National college record in the long jump of 25'6 1/2''. The UCLA gave Jackie a scholarship to their school to play sports. There he became the first bruin (black) athlete to earn Varsity let
The People did not like Jackie one bit, just because his skin was a darker color than there's. It may sound dumb but it was very real Jackie Robinson was a better player that almost half of the white player in the majors and yet every time he got up to bat he was booed by people from both sides of the team. Jackie Remained calm and showed up each game even with the death threats. Jackie Robinson decided to play major league baseball so he joined the Negro leagues. Branch Rickey the Brooklyn Dodgers head coach decided to find a black baseball player strong enough to take all the pressure. he completed officer Candidate school and received commission as a second Lieutenant. Jackie Robinson's career lasted for 10 major league seasons and he played in six world series and six-all star games, his career bating average was . that did not stop Jackie Robinson that made him want it even more. That first game every fan in the stadium yelled and booed at him. When Pearl Harbor was bombed Jackie went to fight for his country. Jackie Robinson knew that if the civil rights movement would have not been started yet that he would not be sitting in the bus of a white baseball team. At this time the civil Rights movement was going on and Jackie was right in the middle of it all. Some teammates would even spit in his face or refuse to eat with Jackie in the same room.
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