Thursday, December 14, 2017

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.

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