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176) In 1947 Rickey called up Jackie to compete on a Major League level and take his career to a much higher level. When people heard of this, that Jackie was going to play on a Major League level players said that if Jackie was going to play they would strike, even some of Jackie’s teammates demanded to be traded and during one of Jackie’s games a barrage of racial insults were directed toward him from the fans in the grandstand...
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(Ritter, S. Lawrence p. 46) The discrimination continued off the field. When the dodgers played on the road Jackie wasn’t allowed to stay in the same hotels has his teammates. He would have to stay in a hotel just for blacks or he had to stay in private homes by himself...
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Jackie Robinson Biography May 16, 2007 The Black Messiah of Baseball Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children...	3 / 670
Jackie Robinson Jackie worked for the National Youth Administration at a work camp but the camp was closed. In the fall of 1941, he joined the Honolulu Bears professional football team and then was drafted into the Army...	2 / 451
Jackie Robinson Jackie fought racism in his California childhood, at collage and throughout his whole life. During his childhood at California he was always picked on at school...	4 / 919
Jackie Robinson: First African American Baseball Player Robinson and the civil rights movement. He was a huge influence on black baseball players. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball...	3 / 610
Jackie Robinson 4 “ He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and the true American champion...	2 / 491
Jackie Robinson At U.C.L.A Jackie became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports, basketball, baseball, football, and track. He was forced to leave college due to financial difficulties...	1 / 221
Jackie Robinson 3 It’s April 15, 1947 opening day at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. Many people have turned out to see one man, the first black person to ever play in major league baseball...	5 / 1167