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1949

  • Allowed to speak up
  • Pushed for Black Managers
  • House of Un-American Activities Committee
  • New York Yankees

Stats

  • Rookie of the Year in 1947
  • NL MVP in 1949
  • 6 NL Pennants
  • World Series Champion in 1955
  • Inducted into the baseball HOF in 1962

Bio

Why Jackie?

  • Born in 1919 in Georgia
  • Son of a Sharecropper
  • Grandson of a slave
  • 4 sport varsity Athlete at UCLA
  • Honolulu Bears
  • Mentally and Physically Strong
  • "I want a ball player with the guts not to fight back."

Baseball Career

Military Service

Malcolm X

  • Kansas City Monarchs
  • Signed With Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946
  • Started with Minor League team Montreal Royals
  • Broke into the MLB with Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
  • 1942-1944
  • Officer Candidate School
  • Bus Incident
  • Philosophy of hatred
  • Ralph Bunche
  • Uncle Tom

Retirement

  • Chock Full of Nuts
  • Freedom National Bank
  • YMCA
  • NAACP

Dr. King

Sources

  • Support for Jackie
  • Rebuilding Churches
  • Credits Jackie for making his job possible

Jackie Robinson - Civil Rights Activist

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wrongs right.” People Weekly 1997:71. General Reference Center Gold. Web. 3

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Robinson, Jackie, and Alfred Duckett. I Never Had It Made. New York: HarperCollins,

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2015.

"Timeline | Jackie Robinson Foundation." Jackie Robinson Foundation Timeline

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Zirin, Dave. “MLK And Sports.” Catholic New Times (2010): 14. Academic Search

Complete. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.

Bileyu, Suzanne. “1947: Jackie Robinson: sixty five years ago, an African-American

took the field in a Major League Baseball game, paving the way for the civil

rights movement and America’s first black president.” New York Times Upfront 2012: 16. General Reference Center Gold. Web. 3 Nove. 2015.

Brown, David. "Baseball's Impact on Martin Luther King Jr." Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo!,

21 Jan. 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.

Irvin, Dona L. "Jackie Roosevelt Robinson." Black Heroes (2001): 570. Points of View

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