Kenny Washington: The First Black NFL Player

Jackie Robinson The First African-American Baseball Player First black baseball player, selfless, and courage are three attributes that describe Jackie Robinson. Many people know that Jackie Robinson was a baseball player, but he was so much more. As a well known baseball player, Jackie Robinson showed pro sports that it is all right to have a black person play. He broke the professional baseball color barrier.

He was a powerful man both physically and influentially. There was a time when he could throw a ninety mile an hour fastball accurately inning after inning. Nathan Williams, now President Williams, was his catcher back then. They celebrated a state championship their senior year.

Many people try to change how they are to fit in . In school kids try to act cool, making up stories about themselves. Even if they don't try to change, other still judge them for fitting in or not trying. This is a problem now and back in times when color people were not accepted as equals. With this in mind, a great example is Jackie Robinson for his struggle to integrate.

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Down Barriers When Jackie Robinson stepped on Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, he single-handedly paved the way for some of the most well-known athletes in the world. Without Robinson, there would be no Michael Jordan, no Hank Aaron, and no Tiger Woods or Cam Newton. The heroic act of simply becoming the first black man to play professional sports was one that will forever affect the sports world and the lives of individuals around the world. What he meant to the world was even more than being just some special athlete, he was a leader and proved a colored man could do everything in society that a white man could do.

The year that Tiger Woods turned pro is the year that the game of golf changed forever. The tournaments, the achievements, and the impact that he had on golf show what he did and how nobody is and will ever come close to doing that. Without Woods doing what he did and what he is still doing make the game of golf one of the most popular sports in the world. The professionals of sports and people around the world talk about how Tiger changed his life, golf and the world while doing it. He shaped, helped, and even changed people’s lives with his talent.

Have you ever seen the Dodgers win the World Series? They only won six times. Jackie Robinson helped them pull through the first one in 1955 against the Yankees. He was rookie of the year in 1947 and a national league MVP in 1949. also did you know that he was the first black baseball player to play in major league baseball?

Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line and became the first African American to play on a major sports team. Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 and went to college at UCLA after high school. He married Rachel Robinson in 1946 and had three children. Robinson died on October 24, 1972 with great accomplishments. Jackie Robinson may be the most important figure in America's history for being the first African American to join the major leagues in baseball, for breaking the color barrier in the sport, and for changing baseball for everyone.

Jackie Robinson is known to be one of the most influential people in baseball and in society. He eternally changed the aspect of American history. It was unusual to have a colored person be treated equally as a white person during the time of the 1900s. He was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 and later moved to Pasadena, California to pursue a better life. He came from a poor family of sharecroppers in the South and was the youngest of five.

White supremascists Shawn Berry Lawrence Russell Brewer and John King started a major racial controversy by murdering James Byrd Jr. It came as a shock to people when, for the first time in history, the press bothered to notice the lynching of a black man in Texas, society was astonished that they cared with such passion and vigor. Many American citizens found this appalling considering the country’s indifference to racial violence. Had it not been for the lynching of James Byrd Jr., the Hate Crimes Prevention Act would not exist, therefore countless acts of brutality would take place because there would not be any rules or resistance impeding them from committing the crime.

An issue that resonates across cultures is racism. Racism is a major deal in all types of cities and states even sports. Even though slavery ended 1865 there are still racism around the world and throughout sports. Racism isn’t a certain color you can be any color and be racist. In my opinion no one is born racist, it’s the way they were raised basically the culture that they were born into.