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when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson’s groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New York City’s Shea Stadium. Robinson’s was the first-ever number retired by all teams in the…

Angeles Dodgers is a professional baseball team that is a part of the Major League Baseball (MLB). The team is originally from Brooklyn, New York, and the name “dodgers” originated from people who were trying to dodge the trolleys in Brooklyn (Los Angeles Dodgers: Timeline). When the Brooklyn Dodgers came under new ownership of Walter O’Malley, he decided to move the team to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962, the Los Angeles…

career as a professional baseball player. His experience at UCLA and Pasadena Junior College that allowed integrated teams that made Jackie disappointed of the way Negro leagues players were treated. They were allowed to play at the white owned stadium, but they were not allowed to play with white players. Because of Jim Crow laws in the south, Jackie and his teammates were racially segregated because of the color of their…

The next day comes along and Jackie is meeting up with the Brooklyn Dodgers for practice so they can see more of Jackie’s skill and after the practice he had everyone blown away so Jackie gets the start for the next game. Jackie’s big day has come, Jackie kisses his wife goodbye and heads off to the baseball stadium and gets ready for the game. The star spangled banner plays on and Jackie is getting zoned in for the game, as Jackie gets up…

How Jackie Robinson Affected how people saw black people In 1947 Jackie Robinson was the very first black to play in the MLB. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.In that same year he was the rookie of the year. In 1949 he was the league MVP and in 1955 he was the world series MVP. In this time period the MLB was very segregated and it was not allowed for blacks to play professionally. But Jackie Robinson changed that forever. He spoke out against segregation and proved that black people are…

The Vietnam War was a military conflict during the Cold War that started in November of 1955 and ended with the fall of Saigon on April 30th 1975. The war was fought between the United States along with Southern Vietnamese against the North Vietminh, in response to the French defeat in Indochina. At first the people in the United States supported the war and thought it would be patriotic to serve for their country, like the older generation that served in the World Wars’. However, as the Vietnam…

Norman Rockwell (1946-1959) The illustrations of Norman Rockwell tell the story of the average American after World War Two. As a result of the Baby Boom, the families were very large, consisting of three to four children (Slide 2). The bigger families led to more chaos and craziness within the household. The mother could finally catch a break once the school bus came to pick up the children (Slide 18). Rockwell also shows that this era was a time of dating and dreaming about finding the right…

constantly receiving threats that said that they were going to end up dead. Most hotels wouldn’t let Jackie stay with his teammates because he had a different skin color. Most restaurants wouldn’t let the Dodgers dine in there because Jackie was an African American. Some teams refused to play the Dodgers because Jackie was on the team. Despite all of these things going against him Jackie never fought back, he never tried to disobey the rules, and he never talked…

Beginning in the sandlot to a stadium seating over 30,000 fans, baseball has given from children to seniors all a common claim; we call it our nation’s past time. Baseball and America have grown up together. Baseball has evolved over the years from its fields, to it’s numbers and its players. We know professional baseball today as a sport where everybody is accepted and welcomed, but it was not always like this. During this time most of America practiced racial segregation, although the…

Jackie Robinson: First Black Baseball All-Star Thesis statement -- Jackie Robinson’s childhood was tough, but he was very athletic. He was good at many different sports. I learned about his baseball success and the segregation he went through. He changed the lives of others and encouraged many other colored people to join the Major Leagues like he did. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo Georgia. Early life for Jackie was tough, at 6 months old his dad left and never came…