Personal Narrative-Jackie Robinson As An Educational Leader

To the average person, in the average American community, Jackie Robinson was just what the sports pages said he was, no more, no less. He was the first Negro to play baseball in the major leagues. Everybody knew that, but to see the real Jackie Robinson, you must de-emphasize him as a ball player and emphasize him as a civil rights leader. That part drops out, that which people forget. From his early army days, until well after his baseball days, Robinson had fought to achieve equality among whites and blacks. "Jackie acted out the philosophy of nonviolence of Martin Luther King Jr., before the future civil rights leader had thought of applying it to the problem of segregation in America"(Weidhorn 93). Robinson was an avid

In 1945, The United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. Once thousands of lives were ended, Japan finally decided to surrender thus ending World War II. While all the men were off at war, women took over the nation wide popular sport, baseball. This inspired the movie A League of Their Own. Once the war ended however, men resumed their spot in Baseball. One man who changed Baseball forever, was Jackie Robinson. This was before African Americans had just as much rights as white men, and so an African American baseball player like Jackie Robinson was very VERY frowned upon. That inspired a movie called, 42: The Jackie Robinson Story. I summarize his story in the following:

In 1919 Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. He was a black nice man and his neighborhood treated him bad and then he finally got over with it and started playing baseball. 20 years later he was grown up and got a call from a white guy. Branch Rickey was a white guy and owned the Dodgers and wanted Jackie to come play so that other black people can play in this league. They wanted a strong man who can take this stuff.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia and was the youngest of five children. He had a grandfather that was a slave, Jackie’s dad was a sharecropper and Mallie, Jackie’s mother, was a maid. His dad ran away from the family when Jackie was only an infant.

Jackie Robinson is very important to sports industry. Especially the Major League Baseball Association. He was discriminated for the color of his skin, the way he talked, what he wore. He was a role model to many African Americans at this time, and even present day. Everybody in sports look up to him, because if it were not for Jackie, they would not be there. What he did took a lot of courage to do.

On April 15,1947 Jackie Roosevelt Robinson broke the color barrier. When he stepped out on to Ebbets Field everyone didn't think he could last long. Jackie was born in Cairo Georgia on January 31,1919, he was the youngest out of five children. He attended John Muir High School. He continued his education at the University Of California, where he became the university’s first student to win four varsity letters in all different sports. In 1941, he was forced to leave UCLA because of financial hardship. Jackie played baseball, football, basketball and was on the track team. From 1942 to 1944, Jackie served as a

Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play baseball in the Major Leagues. He battled and fought through racism, he was a Civil Rights Activist. He changed the way Americans thought about segregation and baseball. Jackie Robinson led the Dodgers to six national titles and one victorious World Series. Jackie Robinson was first born on January 31st of 1919, in Cairo Georgia.

Jackie Robinson the super athlete in college and one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Also youngest of 5 children with a Dad that abandoned them at a young age. He played basketball, baseball, track, football, golf as a teen in high school after he moved from Georgia to Southern California.

Ch. 3; What limited opportunities did Robinson have to exploit his athletic skills after he left UCLA? How did his race limit those opportunities?

To me, a hero is someone you can look up to; someone whom you can admire for their qualities and the obstacles they have overcome. “Fifty years ago, Jackie Roosevelt Robinson became the first black player to play in a Major League baseball game. Jackie was a fearless person and fought until the end and made a big history.”"Jackie Robinson: The Story of an American Hero." HubPages. HubPages, 14 Sept. 2014. Web. 9 May 2016. Everyone respects him a lot and he was a brave man to keep on playing baseball. Though people think Jackie Robinson is not a hero, but others do because he did lots of amazing things that led other black people to play any sport they wanted.

In 1947, Major League Baseball changed forever because of hall of fame player Jackie Robinson. As a result of discrimination and segregation in America it was very difficult for black people to exercise their rights during this time period. Throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s Jackie Robinson’s baseball career dramatically changed as he was the first African American Major League Baseball player. However after signing to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers integration started to become a reality in some societies today. The efforts of Jackie Robinson enabled the Civil Rights Movement to gain the national attention in order to succeed.

In the biography Jackie Robinson and the American Dilemma by John R. M. Wilson, it tells the story of racial injustice done after world war II and explains how Jackie Robinson was pioneer of better race relations in the United States. The obstacles Jackie Robinson overcame were amazing, he had the responsibility to convert the institutions, customs, and attitudes that had defined race relations in the United States. Seldom has history ever placed so much of a strain on one person. I am addressing the importance of Jackie Robinson’s trials and triumphs to American racial dynamics in the post war period to show how Robinson was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and brought baseball fans together regardless of race.

“I have a dream!”, declared King. Does this quote sound familiar? Besides Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was important during the Civil Rights Movement, (w-w) there were other brave leaders who stood up as “Superheroes” during the fight for equality among people. (2) During the years 1954-1968, people changed the course of history everywhere because (BC) of the bravery of some incredible individuals. (3) Slowly (LY) over the years, the heroes’ efforts to stop segregation paid off. (CL) When they protested, they only believed in harmless and nonviolent (SV) acts. The quest for Civil Rights was a fight that lasted many dreadful decades. The struggle for social justice unfortunately took the lives of some “superheroes” way too soon. (1) Daisy

He walked onto the field with dust blinding his eyes. Half the crowd was screaming and hollering, and the other half was booing. Jackie closed his eyes calmly, and felt no anger toward the racist insults that were shot at him. Jackie was determined, and full of hope.

Jackie Robinson was one of the most historically well known people in the civil rights movement. So as the first man to integrate major league baseball, Jackie Robinson had a game changing impact on the way the game was played. Having the courage to fight for what is right, Jackie broke the imaginary color barrier that has covered major league baseball for years. Through his resiliency and tenaciousness in the face of seemingly unconquerable odds, Jackie Robinson set the course for African Americans to continue the expansion for equality and true freedom while he was becoming one of the greatest Major League baseball players in history.