seen and greatly helped major league baseball accept African American players that otherwise

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Hill 1). Jackie's

grandfather was a slave and his father a sharecropper (1). His mom and dad got a divorce when

Jackie was just a baby (1). He, his mother and four siblings moved after his parents got a divorce

(1). His mother took all the children and moved to Pasedena, California (1).

Not long after the family moved to Pasedena, Jackie's mother enrolled him into Pasedena Junior

College ("Robinson, Jackie"). He went on to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) (1).

Jackie was a standout in school sports at UCLA, he played football, baseball, basketball, and track

(1). He later left college in the middle of his junior year to join the Army in 1941 (1). Four years

after entering the Army Jackie was discharged because of a confrentation with another officer when

he would not give up his se

options and he chose Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs (1). He chose Jackie because

enough to take charge of the movement (3).

Robinson had a very successful baseball career. He proved all of his critics wrong, they said Rickey

composier and never lost his temper (Ward, Burns 283). Robinson was always called names but he

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League schedule was very tuff. The team was always on the road playing games. Jackie did not like

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