1. What factors supported racism in the United States in the time of Jackie Robinson’s birth?
a. During the time of Jackie Robinson’s birth the United States was seeing lots of racial tension. The racial tension during this time had many different factors that seemed to lead up to it. Much of it began during World War I when many African American people moved from the southern states to the northern states to compete for jobs. With many of the white men being away at war, it left many job opportunities open for the African American people. Many of them mainly went to the city of Chicago to take the open jobs that were there. When the white men returned from war they were enraged that all of the jobs they had before were took by African
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People begged officers to arrest the assailant of Eugene but the police refused. This sparked riots in many other cities which lead to 23 African deaths, 15 white deaths, 537 injured and left over 1,000 homeless due to the arson.
2. What factors made Jackie Robinson’s prospect so grim when he was born in Georgia in 1919?
a. When Jackie Robinson was born, things around him were not so bright. Racial tensions were at an all-time high, a horrendous flu epidemic had broken out killing over 550,000 people in the United States alone, and the Ku Klux Klan was running rampant once again. One of the grimmest factors was about a year after his birth, his father decides to leave his mother for the woman next door and leaves his mother alone to support him and his other siblings. Also, during this time the Ku Klux Klan could perform public lynching on African American people. They would burn down houses, hang men, shot them, and humiliate them in front of crowds of lower class white people. These factors made living during this time very grim.
3. Why did Robinson choose UCLA for his final year of college? Why did not finish?
a. As his time at Pasadena Junior College drew closer to an end many great universities began to pursue Jackie Robinson because of his ability to play sports. Stanford was one of leading colleges that was very interested in recruiting Jackie to play for
In 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. His family being sharecroppers, Jackie's mother, Mallie, raised Jackie and his four other siblings.(JackieRobinson.com) Being the only black family on the block, his family faced discrimination and racism from neighbors all around. From a humble beginning, Jackie was an outstanding athlete.(larrylester42.com) Jackie was promoted from Washington Junior High. Later, he entered John Muir High School after his junior high career. Recognizing his athletic ability, Robinson's older brothers inspired Jackie to pursue sports.(Jackierobinson.com)
The grandson of a slave, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia; he was the youngest of five children. Jackie grew up very poor, but little did he know that his athletic ability would open the doors for his future. After his father deserted the family when Jackie was six months old, his mother, Mallie Robinson, moved the family to California in search of work. California also subjected blacks to segregation at that time, but to less of a degree than in the Deep South. The young Jackie defused his anger over this prejudice by immersing himself in sports. He displayed extraordinary athletic skills in high school, excelling at football, basketball, baseball, and track. After helping Pasadena Junior College
“Robinson faced death threats, vulgar insults, and hate-filled fans”(Jackie Robinson para 3). It’s because he was the first African-American baseball player in major league baseball and nobody liked him because of that. Jackie Robinson was a brave, hardworking men that accomplished a lot in his life for baseball and African-American community. Jackie Robinson had a positive influence on African Americans because he was the first African-American baseball player in major league baseball, he was a founder of ways to help African-American and he was a civil rights advocate for African-Americans.
“Near six o’clock on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grandy County in southern Georgia” (Rampersad 10). Jackie’s parents, Jerry and Mallie Robinson, first lived together on a small plantation just south of Cairo. Mallie Robinson raised her five children single handedly, and they later moved to Pasadena, California, which was not the most racially friendly environment due to the Robinsons being the only black family on the block. Not having a father in the home, he looked up to his older brothers and saw them as his future, they are the ones who introduced him into the sports
After college, Jackie experimented with different jobs but he just didn’t like anyone. He had offers to play football and Negro league baseball but felt like he had no future in professional sports. After one the darkest days in American history, Pearl Harbor, Jackie was drafted into the war. Jackie had mixed emotions with the war because he was willing to do his part but didn’t like how blacks were being treated in the military. Jackie left for the military and from day one was called a n***** and other racial terms which left Jackie feeling down and out. “I never understood why they wouldn’t accept me, there was a good chance that we were going to die together, so we might as well be friends” (Chadwick 367). Jackie quickly began to gain a little respect when he was named an expert marksman, but not enough for them to let him play baseball with the whites. Jackie would spend three years in the military, which to this day, hasn’t talked a lot about and held anger and hostility towards
Jackie Robinson’s background and childhood environment had a major impact on the ways he went about changing African American lives. He is famous for saying that “a life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives” (Jackie 1). Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt Robinson is famously well-known for becoming the first black player in the major leagues and playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He also was the youngest of five children and he was raised by a single mother. His older brother, Matthew, actually inspired him to pursue his dream in sports. Surprisingly, Matthew won a silver medal in the 200-meter-dash, just behind Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. Jackie went to John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, which are the places where he played a various amount of sports growing up. His reputation as a household name began to gain traction during this time. He was awarded the Region’s Most Valuable
To begin, on January 30th, 1919 Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. His parents were Mallie Robinson and Jerry Robinson. He was the youngest of 5 children. His siblings were Edgar, Frank, Mack, and Willa Mae. After Jackie was born His father left home. Mallie Robinson and the kids had to move to California when Jackie was young. It took over a week on the train ride to California. Jackie’s family was the only black family on their tree lined block in Pasadena. Jackie liked to watch his brother Mack play baseball in the sandlot. One day there wasn’t enough players on a team,
Jackie Robinson's entry into the Major Leagues was far from a walk in the park. He climbed over countless obstacles just to play with white men, some of which, he was better then. He not only had to compete with the returning players from the war, but he also contended with racism. "Many towns in the South did not want racially mixed teams"(Weidhorn 53). As time went on, cities realized that Robinson offered them free publicity.
Robinson was born on January 31,1919 in Cairo, Georgia. As a child Robinson was raised by his mother, Mallie Robinson. He grew up in a single parent household with his four other brothers and sisters. Robinson faced prejudice people everyday, being the only African American on the block. These prejudice people only strengthened and prepared him for later (Jackie Robinson). Robinson attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College for his education. At Pasadena Junior College he was an excellent athlete who played football, basketball, baseball, and track (Jackie Robinson). He continued his education at the University of California in Los Angeles. Here he became the first student at the University to letter in four sports (Jackie Robinson). Robinson was forced to leave this school due to financial issues (Robinson, Jackie). After Robinson left this school he moved to Hawaii, where he played
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
Jackie Robinson was the first black man to ever play in an all white professional baseball league and he ended up becoming one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. When Jackie was only six months old his father left him and his mother was left single with five children, Jackie being the youngest (Robinson 1,2). When Jackie was one his mother moved his family to Pasadena, California (Robinson 4). Jackie Robinson was tormented throughout his career for being African American yet he persevered through it breaking the color barrier in sports making him one of the most beloved baseball players of all time.
Jackie was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro Leagues since the 1880’s. His father left his family, and his mother had to earn money and single handedly raised Jackie. He had three brothers and one sister. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior High School. Jackie continued education at University of California. Jackie became the university’s first student to win varsity letters in four sports. He was forced to leave college since of funds. From 1943 to 1944 he served as a second lieutenant for the US Army. He was released of the Army for refusing to move to the back of a Army bus, He was taken off of his unit. Jackie afterward started playing in the Minor Leagues and joined the Montreal Royals.
Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest out of five siblings, Mack Robinson, Willa Mae Robinson, Edgar Robinson, and Frank Robinson. Jackie Robinson attended John Muir High School, Pasadena Junior College, and UCLA. At UCLA, Jackie Robinson won varsity letters in four different sports baseball, football, track and field, and basketball. One major influence that Jackie Robinson had in his life was Branch Rickey, the former president of the Dodgers. Branch Rickey was a big influence because he is the one that brought Jackie into the MLB, and he was there for Jackie when he faced racism. Throughout his life, Jackie Robinson’s main hardship was racism. During his time period, segregation was something that burdened every African American. Even once he was in the MLB he would receive racism from even his own teammates. He even received things like death threats. Jackie Robinson is respected because throughout all this he
He played baseball, basketball, football, and track, and was the only player in UCLA history to
The issue, Racism and segregation in sports. The answer, Jackie Robinison. “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives,” a quote by Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson, born on January 31st, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. His mother Mallie and his father Jerry were sharecroppers at the time and lived on a plantation. Jerry Robinson made just about $12 dollars a month which was not enough to support a total of five children. Jerry went to his boss and was allowed the opportunity to become a half-cropper which means that he gains profit off of the produce. This allowed him to gain a higher income and therefore provide for his family. Six months after Jackie’s birth, his father went to go visit his brother in Texas and never returned. They soon found out that Jerry had actually ran away with the neighbors wife. To this day Jackie has no idea what became of his father but could only look at him with disdain because he asked himself what type of man would leave his wife and 5 kids to fend for themselves in such an oppressive time period? Jackie and his family then moved to Pasadena, Ca. When his family moved, Jackie’s mother, with help from her niece, moved into a white neighborhood. Manfred Weidhorn noted in his biography, Jackie Robinson, "Jackie was proud of his mother, who would not allow the white neighbors to drive her away or frighten her or mistreat her kids. From her he learned to stand up for his rights. He learned to respect himself, demand