Christopher willow spring 2010
Jackie Robinson's dad was a sharecropper and his grandfather was a slave and jackie was born in 1919 in georgia. they moved to californiA TO LIVE IN A SAFER PLACE FOR BLACKS.
JACKIE WAS THE ONLY BLACK KID ON HIS BLOCK. IT WAS HARD BEING THE ONLY BLACK ON THE BLOCK BECAUSE HIS NEIGHBORS THREW ROCKS AT HIM! JACKIE DID NOT FIGHT BACK. HE PLAYED SPORTS WITH THEM. HE PLAYED SO MANY SPORTS, I CAN'T COUNT! WHEN THEY PLAYED SPORTS, HIS NEIGHBORS DID NOT CARE IF HE WAS BLACK BECAUSE HE WAS SUCH A GOOD ATHLETE.
HE WENT TO U.C.L.A. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH SPORTS AND HE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL ISUM. HE WAS THE FIRST MAN IN HIS SCHOOL TO WIN LETTERS IN FOUR DIFFERENT SPORTS!
JACKIE JOINED THE ARMY, BUT WAS NOT REALLY WELCOME TO THE ARMY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT A BLACK MAN AS AN OFFICER. BUT SOMEONE STOOD UP FOR JACKIE AND HELPED HIM BECOME AN OFFICER.
BLACKS WERE NOT ALLOWED IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES, SO WHEN HE LEFT THE ARMY, JACKIE PLAYED IN THE NEGRO LEAGUES. BRANCH RICKEY, THE HEAD OF A MAJOR LEAGUE TEAM CALLED THE BROOKLYN DODGERS, WANTED A BLACK MAN WHO WAS STRONG AND WOULDN'T FIGHT BACK WHEN PEOPLE CALLED HIM NAMES.
JACKIE WAS CALLED NAMES AND SENT NASTY LETTERS IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES AND PEOPLE THREATENED TO KILL HIM, BUT HE DID NOT FIGHT BACK! JACKIE WAS ONE OF THE BEST PLAYERS ON THE DODGERS AND HE STOLE HOME A LOT. HE WAS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR! LATER, HE WAS NAMED THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER. HE DIED IN 1974 AND WAS ELECTED TO THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME.
This Person is a changemaker because: 1. jackie robinson he tried to make things fair for everybody by making black people able to play in the major leagues. 2. Jackie persuaded other people to believe that blacks were as good as whites. 3.he jackie never gave up.
jackie robinson is connected to ruby briges because they both integrated.
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One thing I've learned is Jackie is strong in his heart.
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Jackie robinson
American sports
changes something for the future
integrated means even though whites didn't want blacks in white places, black people, like jackie, made white place include black people
Rookie means new person in a sport.
sharecropper means farms for somebody else.
Georgia was wHere jackie robinson was born and wHere jackie played baseball.