Smokey Robinson

Walker grew up a hardworking individual working on his family’s farm in order to support the family. Playing baseball started with Walker playing as a bat boy for the Lenoir team in the Class D North Carolina State League. Walker’s icon was Rube Robinson, the superstar of the team. He quickly acquired the nickname “Rube”. Walker’s career…

Charles Drew Essay Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3rd, 1904 in Washington, D.C. a African American physician who found way to process and store blood plasma in “blood banks”. He controlled blood plasma programs for the United States and Great Britain in WWII, but he resigned after the ruling that blood of the African Americans would eventually be segregated Dr.Drew Died April 1st, 1950. Dr.Drew found some unusual discoveries when in storage and processing of blood for transfusions. He…

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…

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on the date of January 3, 1919. Breaking the color barrier, Jackie Robinson turned into the first ever African-American to play in Major League Baseball. The most youthful of five youngsters, Robinson was brought up in relative destitution by a single parent. He went to John Muir High School and after he attended Pasadena Junior College, where he showed his skills playing four sports: baseball, track, football, and basketball. In 1938 he was…

Do you know what's so important about 1839? It was the year that America’s pastime was created. That's right we're talking about baseball! “Little is known about the origin of baseball, the subject of considerable debate and controversy for more than 100 years” (“B-R Bullpen” 1). With all of this debate surrounding baseball’s creation, the sport has changed over the time. Baseball’s history is a bit scattered. We don’t technically who the original creator was but one rumor that was floating…

For many years, Henry Louis Gates Jr was handicapped due to a misdiagnosis due to prejudice. In 1964, he was a 14-year-old boy living in a small backwoods town of Appalachia with around 2,000 residents. One day while playing touch football, he unknowingly had retained a hairline fracture playing football with his friends and shortly after, the fracture sheared in to two. He then went to the hospital, and just on hearing that henry had knee pain the surgeon diagnosed with having a torn ligament…

First of all I had a really enjoyable time reading the book, The Glory of Their Times, written by Lawrence S. Ritter. This book was simply about the author recording the memories of baseball players from the early 1900s etc. I’ve learned a lot from this book, it showed me that there is always a way to achieve your goal no matter who are you are and what you do. Some of the players had even gone through the Progressive Era, which was a time of social activism and political reform in the U.S. and…

42 (2013) is directed and written by Brian Helgeland, which is a biographical sports movie based on Jackie Robinson. The film depicts the difficulties Jackie Robinson has to face while entering his baseball career. This film also captures the emotions of blacks when they see Robinson play for the Dodgers since he was the first African American to play in MLB. The film not only shows the difficulties a talented black man has to face during his baseball career, but it also depicts segregation in…

Have you ever had a turning point or life-changing experience? The idea is explored in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, I Never Had It Made an autobiography of Jackie Robinson, and “The Father Of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maskell, which highlights Feng Ru. Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all faced dangerous and challenging life- changing experiences, and by doing so, improved their countries and their lives. One person that helped improve integration…

O.S. Ozzie Williams was the first African American Aerospace Engineer. Being born in 1921, unfortunately his life was tough growing up as an African American on the way to higher education and success. Williams received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at New York University. Ozzie Williams was the first to be hired by Republic Aviation, Inc. during World War II. This research paper will briefly explain the struggle Williams went through growing up, receiving his degrees, and being…