Moving the world

Jackie Roberson was the Vice President Director of Personnel. He made $40,000 a year. Jackie traveled around going to stores talking to employees and most of them was black. When Jackie Roberson retired his wife, Rachel, went back to college. Rachel Roberson earned her master's degree in psychological nursing. Jackie was a spokeman for the blacks. Jackie and Martin Luker King Jr. was friends at this time. Civil rights movement was staring to grow. Jackie Roberson critcized how slow they were take to inegrate to schools. In 1954 the US Supreme Court ruled a case the Brown v. the Board of Education. The Court ruled that the schoole that where getting the blacks and whites apart was not give them fair education and then unconstitutional. Beside Jackie being a legend, a civil rights pioneer, and motavator speaker; he did a radio show weekly and also wrote a colum three times a week. Jackie Robinson wrote about politics, baseball,international affairs, and the upcoming Presidential race between Senator John F. Kennedy abnd Vice President Richard Nixon. Dr. Martin Luker King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) ran a full-page ad in The New York Times on March 29, 1960. Jackie Roberson made sure that his name was added to the list of the celebrities and political leaders. Roberson was considered a conservative at a time when most african americans were liberal Democrats. Jackie travled the world speaking on the behalf of the blacks and jews. The summer of 1962 Jackie Roberson was put in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The best about that is that it was his first time being eligibility. October 24, 1972 the legend, civil rights pioneer, motavator speaker and  radio show host Jackie Roberson passed. All the thing Jackie Roberson and the other fellow civil right movers did for the world and how much they change piece by piece.

We Will Make It

 When Jackie went at UCLA  he went to  play baseball but when he got  at UCLA he also played basketball, football, and track. After being at in college Jackie Roberson went to the military. When Jackie was in the military he played sports here too. One night well Jackie was on the bus sitting to a white woman but that wan't the problem. The problem was that a light skinned woman come on the bus and they wanted Jackie to move but he didn't want to, so that cause an altercation. So after being in the military for a good amount of time. In 1945 Jackie became a basketball coach at Sam Houston College. Sam Houston College is a small all black school in Texas. Jackie Roberson played for the Negro Leagues. The team Roberson played for was the Kansas City Monarchs. They payed Jackie $400 a month. A writer wanted Jackie to join to other black baseball players to tryout for the Boston Red Sox. When they went to the tryouts, they hear that the tryouts has been postponed and they hear that for four days straight. There has been not Negros in the major leagues until Branch Rickey wanted Jackie Roberson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie's first year in as a Dodger he .297 hits according to History Channel. Jackie face racism the first year before he got respect from his peers and other baseball players. But he made it through it all and is still one of the greatest in baseball history.

Works Cited

History Channel."Jackie Robinson Breaks Major League Color Barrier." History.com,A&E Television Networks, 2017, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackie-robinson-breaks-major-league-color-barrier.

     Works Cited

   AP  Photo. "Lowell Cohn: A Christmas tale of Jackie Robinson." Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 25 Dec. 2011, www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2301938-181/lowell-cohn-a-christmas-tale?artslide=1.