Jackie Robinson
Broke Color Barrier In Sports
- Born: January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia
- Died: October 24, 1972 in Stamford, Connecticut
- Other Names: Robinson, Jack Roosevelt
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Baseball Player
Early Life
When he was in High School he excelled I many sports including football, basketball, baseball, and track.
A week after he was born his father ran off with his neighbor's wife and his family was forced to leave so they went to California to live with his mom's brother
Getting Involved
- He stepped into the white baseball world while schools, buses, restaurants, and hotels he changed the face of the Earth while he segregated baseball to everyone
Choices and Results
- Jackie broke the color barrier in sports when he played his first game against the Boston Braves at first base and now at every MLB team has retired the number 42 and now has an iconic day on April 15th
- Teammates tried to get him off the roster but the manager didn't want him too leave so he stayed Jackie's family faced death threats
In His Words
"Pasadena regarded us as intruders. My brother and I were in many a fight that started with a racial slur on the very street we lived on.... In certain respects Pasadenans were less understanding than Southerners and even more openly hostile." Jackie Robinson
Words for Him
- “Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.” Willie Mays
Legacy
- He broke the color barrier in baseball and paved the way for many other sports to let the entry of colored people.
- He has changed the way people have looked at many people in all sports
Annotated Bibiliogrophy
1. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/jackie_robinson.html
I picked this site to get quotes because they had quotes that other people were talking about him and this was a reliable source to us than other websites.It gave me quotes on how other people talked about Jackie Robinson and they thought of him.
2. "Jackie Robinson." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1994. Biography in Context. Web. 3 May 2016.
I picked this site because it gave me the info to Early Life and how Jackie's legacy has effected many lives today other sites and it was a biography.This showed me how his legacy has impacted today's society and all around the world in every sport.
3. "Jackie Robinson." Notable Sports Figures. Ed. Dana R. Barnes. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Biography in Context. Web. 4 May 2011
I used this site because it gave me some more facts about his Early Life and also it was the only site that gave me info about his Choices and Results.This site was his biography on his life in the earlier stages of his life.
4. "Jackie Robinson." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Biography in Context. Web. 4 May 2016.
This site was chosen because it gave me the pictures I needed and was the only site that gave me pictures that I needed.This site is useful because it showed me an iconic picture of Jackie Robinson.
5. "Jackie Robinson." Contemporary Heroes and Heroines. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1990. Biography in Context. Web. 6 May 2016.
This was the site that gave me is words on why he made the choices he made and this is the reason why I chose this site for my info.
6. "Jackie Robinson." Notable Black American Men, Book II. Ed. Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 11 May 2016
This site brings you to the main facts of Jackie Robinson including his birth, death, occupation, nationality, and other names.I used this because these facts are an important source to his life.
7. "Jackie Robinson." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 11 May 2016.
This site brings you to why he wanted to do what he did and how he broke the color barrier in sports and this was important because it was his main influence on society.
8. "Jackie Robinson." The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures. Ed. Arnold Markoe and Kenneth T. Jackson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. Biography in Context. Web. 11 May 2016
This site was chosen because it showed his early life and what he did and how he was a sport freak. Also it shows how is choices have impacted us today and changed our society.
9. "Primary Source: Jackie Robinson With Ben Chapman SYNOPSIS: The ending of the color barrier in..." American Decades Primary Sources. Ed. Cynthia Rose. Vol. 5: 1940-1949. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Biography in Context. Web. 11 May 2016.
This site was chosen because it shows us that the color barrier was broken and now everyone was playing together and be cooperative and sharing a moment together.
10. "Selected Websites on Jackie Robinson's Life and Works." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Biography in Context. Web. 11 May 2016.
This a site i chose and why i did is becasue it showed me his early life and how he got involved early in life. Also because it gave me his early life story and why he mad the choices early in life.