Jackie Robinson Term Papers

THE LEGACY OF JACKIE ROBINSON

Jackie Robinson once said, “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson is an inspiration to so many including the young dreamers. Jackie Robinson is best remembered for his early years, fighting to be one the first African-American to play major league ball, and the dream he left for those to follow.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. Soon after his birth his family moved to an all-white neighborhood, in California. While they lived there, the other little children and adults would make fun of Jackie Robinson and his family because they were the only African-Americans there. While Robinson was a young child, he got into much trouble, sometimes with other people in the neighborhood and even sometimes even the law. He had a miniature gang called the pepper street gang (because that was the street they lived on). This gang was made up of him, Asians, Mexicans, and other misfits of the neighborhood. One day, while he was running around he met man by the name of Kate Brown, a young minister. He told Robinson that he needed to stop running around with the pepper street gang because Robinson could get

Jackie Robinson never realized how bad the threats were affecting him. At times Robinson could not eat or even sleep. His wife soon began looking for a doctor to help him out as she was afraid that he might be having a mental break-down or something even worse. The doctor told Robinson to stop playing baseball for a little while, and let things calm down. Instead of listening to his doctor, Robinson kept playing the game he loved (Marsh,