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    respect me as a human being” this is a quote Jackie Robinson once said. Jackie Robinson is one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He is the first African American baseball player of the 20th century. He had many problems and troubles, but that did not affect Jackie at all. He would would think of the negatives of life, only the positives. He help show that it is not about the color of our skin, it is heart that makes as special. Jackie Robinson changed the world by breaking Baseball’s…

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    42 is a biographical film illustrating the life of Jackie Robinson. The movie takes place in the 1940s and is about Jackie’s road to breaking the color barrier. Even though African Americans where free and equal, according to the Constitution, there was still segregation. Blacks and whites could not use the same bathroom, water fountain, or even be in the same school. These were all know as Jim Crowe laws. This was very wrong but was considered ok because of the Supreme Court ruling of separate…

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    Fifty years ago, on April 18, 1946, Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's color barrier with a characteristic bang, homing and scoring four runs in a historic first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers' top farm team.In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible wanted to show a version of McCarthyism. McCarthyism the is the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism . But instead of seeing people that have…

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    where would they be without Jackie Robinson. He changed the world in a positive way. He broke the color barrier in 1947 and helped in the Civil Rights movement. Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He was a star athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in four different sports, and he became UCLA’s first four letterman for his multisport skills. Robinson served as a second Lieutenant in the United States army from 1942 to 1944. Robinson finally played his…

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    made” (Jackie Robinson) “ The father of Chinese Aviation( Rebecca Maksel). Melba Pattillo Beals face the first group of black people to go to the white people’s high school.”Littlerock high school” Feng Ru have faced his dream, but he don’t enough money to finish his dream. And Jackie Robinson was the first African American black baseball player, but everybody was like all hate him, just because he was a black baseball player. This shows that life changing was very very difficult. Jackie…

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    In I Never Had It Made, Jackie Robinson changed the face of Major League Baseball, by making them allow a black player in the league. Finally, in “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel, Feng Ru faced discrimination from a country and trial and error, to make the first airplane from China. All of these people faced very tough obstacles, but even with these obstacles, their end results had led them to change their countries and themselves for good. Jackie Robinson changed the face of…

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    Jackie Robinson was the man who broke the color blockade in Major League Baseball. He was a multi sport athlete during his college years at UCLA. He participated in four sports in college which proved his amazing athletic ability, which led to his offer from the Kansas City Monarchs to play in the Negro Baseball League. Robinson also served in the military prior to his time in Major League Baseball. After playing for the Monarchs Robinson was sent to play for the Montreal Royals. The Royals…

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    “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”(Robinson). The sports world developed in the 1920’s with the explosion of America’s pastime, Major League Baseball. Baseball was formed in 1850’s in the United States but did not really become widely watched until 1920. The majority of those who watched baseball were middle-upper class Americans. This meant that the black community had not indulged in playing or watching baseball. Starting around 1920, the Negro League was…

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    Jackie Robinson was the first black (African American) baseball player to make it into Major League Baseball in 1945. To many he was remembered as a hero in most people but in others they despised him for what he had become. He was also a gateway for all black (African American) people to go into sports and enrolments like sports. He was also very good in basketball, football and track the reason he loved sports so much is that there were no limits to how long or at what time or day it was. He…

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    So how did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier….he stood his ground. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. His mother name was Mallie Robinson, Jackie had three brothers and one sister, Mack, Frank, Edgar, and his sister Willa. When Jackie was six months old his father left. His mom Mallie moved him and his brothers and sister into an all white neighborhood in California. His mother would not let the white people run them off. Jackie went to middle school…

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