Jackie Robinson may not have been the best baseball player in the history of baseball but he was surly the most important. Without Jackie courage we would not have other great baseball players like: Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, or even Sammy Sosa. I hope in this essay you will get a better understanding for how the civil rights movement effected Jackie Robinson.

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was a well brought up young man and got good grades. A little after Jackie's father who was a sharecropper left Georgia to be with another woman. when Jackie completed high school the rest of the family moved to Pasadena, California because of finical problems. Jackie attended Pasadena Junior College now known as Pasadena City College.

as an under graduate Jackie excelled in four sports: Football, Track, Baseball, and basketball. The next year at his college he set a National college record in the long jump of 25'6 1/2''. The UCLA gave Jackie a scholarship to their school to play sports. There he became the first bruin (black) athlete to earn Varsity let

Jackie Robinson was joined by another player in the American leagues in 1949. The two players never met each other but they were together in heart.

"I know that I am a black man in a white world... I know I never had it made."

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

That first game every fan in the stadium yelled and booed at him. Remarks were said like nigger, Black scum, and people held signs that said go back to Africa. that did not stop Jackie Robinson that made him want it even more. As a second basemen Jackie would get spiked (when an opponent intently tries to slide spikes up at a player) all the time. In his first season he batted .296 and was voted rookie of the year. In the mean time Rosa Parks began her fight against black segregation on busses. Jackie took Rosa parks protest seriously. After each game Jackie would sit in the front the team bus. Jackie Robinson knew that if the civil rights movement would have not been started yet that he would not be sitting in the bus of a white baseball team. As Jackie once said

When ever there were civil Rights meetings in the city Jackie was in for his baseball

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