How Did Jackie Robinson Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

Jackie Robinson was not just a great baseball player, but he was also a great man who had enormous amount of courage and pride. Once Jackie Robinson entered Major League Baseball in April of 1947, he became the first African American to break the so-called color barrier, paved the way for the civil rights movement and also changed the anti-racist struggle.

Jackie Robinson was born on January 31 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, who was raised in relative poverty by a single mother. Throughout his life, Jackie attended John Muir HIgh School and Pasadena Junior College, where he became an excellent athlete of our sports: football, basketball, track, and baseball. Jackie continued In 1941, despite his athletic success, Robinson was forced to leave UCLA just shy of graduation due to financial hardship. When he moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, he played football for the semi-professional Honolulu Bears. After his discharge from the Army in 1944, Robinson began to play baseball professionally. At the time, the sport was segregated, and African-Americans and White players played in segregated leagues. Jackie began playing in the Negro Leagues

He paved the way for civil rights by being the first African-American male to play on an all white baseball team. Robinson stood for his moral principles no matter what anyone said. After he integrated baseball, Jackie became a full-fledged leader in the civil rights movement. He traveled across the country in a effort to build morale among African Americans fighting for racial justice in their local communities. Robinson helped many civil rights campaigns in Albany (GA.) and Birmingham. Robinson was so moved by the efforts of black parishioners to register African-American voters. In 1964, Robinson found the Freedom National Bank in Harlem as a protest against white financial institutions that discriminated against African Americans by denying them loans or setting interest rates artificially