Jackie robinson mini biography fdr
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
ON JULY 6, 1944, Jackie Robinson, a twenty-five-year-old lieutenant, boarded an Army bus at Fort Hood, Texas. Sixteen months later he would be tapped as the man to break baseball’s color barrier, but in 1944 he was one of thousands of blacks thrust into the Jim Crow South during World War II. He was with the light-skinned wife of a fellow black officer, and the two walked half the length of the bus, then sat down, talking amiably. The driver, gazing into his rear-view mirror, saw a black officer seated in the middle of the bus next to a woman who appeared to be white. “Hey, you, sittin’ beside that woman,” he yelled. “Get to the back of the bus.”
Lieutenant Robinson ignored the order. The driver stopped the bus, marched back to where the two passengers were sitting, and demanded that the lieutenant “get to the back of the bus where the colored people belong.” Robinson refused, and so began a series of events that led to his arrest and court
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Jackie Robinson (1919 – 1972) was the first African-American to play Major League baseball in the Twentieth Century. In April 1947, he broke the decades-old ‘colour line” to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He continued to play for the next 10 years, leading Brooklyn to six pennants and their only World Series Title. He became an important figure in the American civil rights movement and a symbol of a new era of breaking down racial segregation in America.
“I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of amerika has it made.”
– Jackie Robinson.
Jackie was born in 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. His grandfather was a slave and his father a sharecropper. His father left the family when he was just one year old and his mother moved to Pasadena, California, where she brought up the family in relative poverty. As a teenager, Jackie
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jackie robinson
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play Major League Baseball.
Robinson broke baseball's color barrier when he started in a game at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
When the Dodgers signed Robinson, it heralded the end of Racial segregation in professional baseball.
Up until that point African American baseball players had been segregated to the Negro League, a tradition that had been around since the 1890s.
Jackie Robinson was inducted into the Major League Baseball's National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
During his 10-year career playing Major League Baseball, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and was an all-star for 6 consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954.
Jackie won the National League's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in 1949—the first black player to be so honored.
Robinson played in 6 World Series g