Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson. When he first joined his team it was very difficult but as things progressed his made a spot for him on the team. Also Robinson was a very funny person which made it a lot easier. He had most of the team laughing by the second week. Of course his ability to play the great sport was the most helpful key point of his teammates accepting Jackie Robinson

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Jackie Robinson was married to Rachel Isum Robinson. The two had three children.

He withstood immense amounts of discrimination. When the team was playing another team he couldn't stay in the same place with his white teammates, nor eat with them. They treated him as a second-class member of the team and people would yell things at him. This takes a lot of fortitude to live through.

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Jackie Robinson retired from baseball at age 37 on January 5, 1957

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He was the first to play Baseball

Yes, Jackie Robinson was an admirable person. Aside from his admirable athletic abilities, he had the courage to confront racism in America and to help overcome it.

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Jackie Robinson needed money to support his family. Black athletes were very underpaid in the 1940s and 1950s.

He was on a segreated military bus going to boot camp and refused to move to the back of the bus.

He lived at 8232 DeGaspé in Montreal. There is a small plaque commemorating it.

Robinson played his entire Major League career for the Brooklyn Dodgers. During his career, the Dodgers played in six World Series, winning one, in 1955 over the New York Yankees.

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Yes, Jackie Robinson has an influence on the civil rights movement

In 1884, two bothers, Fleet and Welday Walker, black Americans, played for Toledo in the American Association which was considered a Major League at the time. In the modern era, of course, Jackie Robinson is considered the first African American player when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

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After graduating from Pasadena Junior College, Jackie Robinson attended the University of California at Los Angeles. He dropped out of UCLA in his senior year, before graduating and took a job as an assistant athletic director with the government's National Youth Administration (NYA) in Atascadero, California.