Discrimination In The 1800's

Discrimination and prejudice are widely known in United States history. In the 1960's the civil rights movement demanded legislation and passed laws, which banned discrimination. Five decades later, it still continues in our society. Discrimination and prejudice occur when a group of people feel they are superior to another, and can be based on a person's color, race, national origin, religion, sex and gay couples.

Jackie Robinson is known for breaking the color barrier in his first major league baseball game on April 15, 1947. Many people were shocked at an African American player in a baseball game so many gathered inside the stadium as the game went on. After his amazing baseball career came to an end Jackie gave political speeches on views of Martin

Later on, the Brooklyn Dodgers hired him to play. At first, he faced a lot of prejudice. He didn't care and sooner, people loved him. He was everywhere; there was articles about him in the newspaper, there were pictures of him everywhere, and everyone knew him. He was an amazing player. Soon people started hiring more and more African American players. The baseball league started getting integrated.In the text( Biography) it states,” ..he pioneered the integration of professional athletics in America. By breaking the color barrier in baseball, the nation’s favorite sport, he courageously challenges the deeply rooted custom of racial segregation in both the North and South.” Jackie Robinson achieved his goal of integrating major league baseball teams.

He walks into the stadium...hopeful...yet aware of the prejudice exiting in the minds of the ignorant... in the minds of those who do not realize his journey will empower the victims of unjustified hate and he will change history. Jackie Robinson shattered the color barrier in the MLB despite racism that permeated throughout the league and in society in the 1940 's. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball. He is a model or courage and fortitude for everyone, and has left a huge legacy in the baseball world and in the whole entire sports world. He was signed by the brooklyn Dodgers in April 15, 1947. This is when history was made. This paper will explain Jackie Robinson 's life before his career as a dodger, how he played, the person behind the signing of Jackie, and most importantly how the fans treated him and how he was even a leader/what his legacy even was.

Jackie was a phenomenal athlete for young kids to look up to. After the start of World War II he served in the military from 1942 to 1944. After the war he returned to his love for baseball, playing in the Black major leagues. He was chosen by Branch Rickey, vice president of the Brooklyn dodgers, to help integrate the Major Leagues. Rickey hated segregation just as much as Robinson and wanted to change things “Rickey had once seen a Black college player turned away from a hotel… Rickey never forgot seeing this player crying because he was denied a place to lay his weary head just because of the color of his skin” (Mackenzie). He was finally able to do something about segregation and help change baseball and the United States for the better. It wasn’t that all the teams were racist and didn’t want a black player but when the major league teams had an away game they would rent out the stadium to the black teams for them to play at. And the executives of teams didn’t want to loose the money that they were making off of the black teams. “League owners would lose significant rental revenue” (“Breaking”). He soon signed with the all-white Montreal Royals a farm team for the Dodgers. Robinson had an outstanding start with the Royals, “leading the International League with a .349 batting average and .985 fielding percentage” (Robinson). After Robinson’s outstanding year he was promoted to the Dodgers he played his first game on

“Despite his talent and success as a player, Robinson faced tremendous racial discrimination throughout his career, from baseball fans and some fellow players(History.com)”. Jackie confidently handled racism from fans throwing trash on the field. He was proud to be in the Major Leagues even as the people were leaving the stadium when he went on the field. He showed that African Americans were strong and

As he got older Robinson got better and better at baseball to the point where there were no other leagues, but the Major Leagues that was hard enough and competitive enough for Robison. The problem was African American people couldn’t play in the Major Leagues, but that was about to change. Major League officials understood how talented Jackie Robinson was and tried to get him on a team, League President Ford Frick, Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler, and Jewish baseball Greenberg are three of the believers that wanted Jackie Robinson to play. Eventually Jackie Robinson got on the Brooklyn Dodgers and played for them. He helped the Dodgers by scoring 12

A talented player, Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year award his first season, and helped the Dodgers to the National League championship and also his first of his six trips to the World Series. Jackie Robison believed that white and black should be together and there should be no racial discrimination. He wanted to see black people playing in baseball field. Throughout his career, Jackie Robinson was a fearless competitor. I wanted to win and show that an African American can play which he proved it by his own action. People still remember him because of him many African American are able to play in fields

When he signed with the Dodgers, he was the first every African American. 1947, the year he first joined the team knowing what was going to come. Segregation was a immense part of everyday life and Jackie Robinson awakened America’s conscious on discrimination. Jackie Robinson dealt with enmity, racial comments, and cruelty. He knew, being the first ever African American that not everyone was going to support him.

Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play in the modern MLB. Branch Rickey signed Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945 because he realized there were many talented athletes in the Negro League. Robinson was on the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956. Rickey knew Robinson would get lots of booing and insults on the field, but he knew Robinson could control his anger. The year he entered the Major Leagues the threats, insults and abuse got worse. He didn’t let it get to him and that year, his batting average was .297 and scored 127 runs.

“...shattering the so called color barrier, a 50 year old tradition of segregation(00:0:25-00:0:31, Jackie Robinson Mini-Bio)”,”Robinson’s success have opened the floodgates for fellow African-Americans, within the first five years of his career, another 150 black baseball players have been signed to minor and major leagues(00:2:24-00:2:39, Jackie Robinson Mini-Bio),”. Jackie Robinson helped America open their eyes and see how African-Americans are good at sports too and they should be able to play in the same league as white people do, Jackie also later became acquainted with Martin Luther King Jr. in his non-violent campaigns in America. Jackie helped end segregation and discrimination in

One of Jackie Robinson’s struggles was segregation.He was not allowed to play with the white men because of his skin color. Also back in that time there was lot’s of racism. When Jackie Robinson finally got to play on the men’s white team the fans booed him. Jackie Robinson had some really hard struggles but he got through it.

In the United States today discrimination is still an issue in society. As a society progress has definitely been made, but it has never fully gone away. Some of the most discriminatory action takes place in the American justice system. Young minority males between the ages of 25-29 are subject to being treated the most unfairly while whites of the same age are still being treated better than any race in this country. African American and Hispanic males are being incarcerated at higher rates than white males in America. Not only are minorities being incarcerated more, but also they are subject to harsher sentencing terms, fall victim to police racial profiling, and have disparities in the war on drugs. Also whites are still the dominant

In colonial America, certain groups of people, specifically women and people of color, had to face societal struggles, such as discrimination. Discrimination can be based on many different characteristics—age, gender, weight, ethnicity, religion, or even politics. For example, prejudice and discrimination based on race is called racism. Oftentimes, gender prejudice or discrimination is referred to as sexism. Discrimination is often the outcome of prejudice, a preformed negative judgment or attitude. General well-being, self-esteem, self-worth, and social relations can be severely impacted in a negative way as a result of discrimination. Unfortunately, this obstacle still exists in our society today, but it is definitely not as severe as it was back in colonial American times. This idea that many times, certain groups in society are discriminated against due to their race, gender, appearance, etc. is a theme that is expressed in the early American texts, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, and “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines lynching as “to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission.” The South’s so-called “lynch law” was viewed as having ultimate supremacy over court proceedings. Over the course of ten years, there were more than a thousand documented cases of lynching in the United States. It is suspected that there were even more cases that went undocumented. White Americans also tended to downplay the actual severity of hangings and lynchings, especially in newspapers and editorials. There were many ways in which African Americans were discriminated against by whites that led to the obstruction of justice,