JACKIE ROBINSON: Breaking the Racial Barriers

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He was born on January 31, 1919, on a peonage that was one step away from the slavery into which his grandparents had been born (Mann 53). Only six months after Jackie was born his father deserted the family. This led to several hardships. The family lived on a sharecropper's farm until the plantation owner used the father's leave as an excuse to keep the whole crop the family had raised and to evict the widow and her children (54)...
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He was born on January 31, 1919, on a peonage that was one step away from the slavery into which his grandparents had been born (Mann 53). Only six months after Jackie was born his father deserted the family. This led to several hardships. The family lived on a sharecropper's farm until the plantation owner used the father's leave as an excuse to keep the whole crop the family had raised and to evict the widow and her children (54)...
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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
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