A Brief Conclusion

 

    Jackie Robinson is one of the most notable baseball players in history for breaking the color barrier in major league sports. Most people forget that he was also a civil rights advocate, that wrote to presidents and protested peacefully. He was a man of many firsts and that makes him important to history.  

Sharon Robinson - Daughter of Jackie Robinson

 

    

    Sharon Robinson is the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and an educational consultant for the MLB (Sharon Robinson). She has written many historical and children's books about her family including one the focuses on her father's history: Promises to Keep (Sharon Robinson). She tells a story of a father that only she can tell a personal family story (Sharon Robinson).

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Sharon Robinson

“About Sharon.” Sharon Robinson, www.sharonrobinsonink.com/about-sharon.

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Michael Long - Jackie Robinson Historian

 

    Michael Long is an associate professor of religious studies and peace and conflict studies at Elizabethtown College (Harper Collins Publishers). He has written three books on Jackie Robinson: First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography, and Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball (Wikipedia). His main view of Jackie Robinson is that his religion played a major role in how Robinson view things during his life (E-Town News). 

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Harper Collins Publishers

“Michael G. Long.” HarperCollins, www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/michael-g-long-880000021274. Accessed 8 May 2022.

Wikipedia 

“Michael G. Long.” Wikipedia, 28 Mar. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Long. Accessed 8 May 2022.

E - Town News

‌Apr 13, et al. Religious Studies Professor Co-Authors Book on Jackie Robinson Spirituality | Etown News. news.etown.edu/index.php/2017/04/13/religious-studies-professor-co-authors-book-on-jackie-robinson-spirituality/. Accessed 8 May 2022.

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Jackie Robinson Letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower - May 13, 1958

This is a letter that Jackie Robinson wrote while he was an executive at Chock full o'Nuts coffee company. He wrote to Eisenhower about his lack of decisive action to enforce desegregation and was commending him on his involvement with Arkansas's Governor using the National Guard to block black students from enter a school that was being desegrated (National Archives). This letter and others he wrote to Presidents shows just how passionate he was about civil rights and the president's ability to move the cause foreword. These documents are important to history because they provide a glimpse into the point of view of an influential person at this point in time. 

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The National Archives

“Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate.” National Archives, 15 Aug. 2016, www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/letter-1958.html.

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I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

 

This is an autobiography written by Alfred Duckett as it was told to him by Jackie Robinson himself. This provides important information Jackie Robinson's life and the struggles he endured. The book takes you from his early years to the day he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers (Robinson).

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Amazon

“Amazon - I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson: Robinson, Jackie, Duckett, Alfred: 9780060555979: Books.” Amazon.com, 2022, www.amazon.com/Never-Had-Made-Autobiography-Robinson/dp/0060555971?. Accessed 8 May 2022.

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John Roosevelt Robinson. I Never Had It Made, by Jackie Robinson as Told to Alfred Duckett. New York, Putnam, 1972.

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A Brief Introduction to Jackie Robinson

      

  Jackie Robinson is widely known as the first African American baseball player in major league baseball, but did you know that he was also a civil rights advocate. While Jackie Robinson's life had many high points there was unfortunately many low points in his life as well as he states in his autobiography, I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinso(n that his father left his family when he was very young, his brother's death in a motor accident , his almost near court-martial in the US army, enduring racial slurs during his career as a minor/major league baseball player and the death of his oldest son (Wikipedia). Some of his many highs include meeting his future wife Rachel Isum, the birth of his three children (Jackie Jr., Sharon and David), and his stellar career as a player for the Dodgers. 

    He was born on January 31, 1919, to his parents Mallie and Jerry Robinson (Wikipedia). Not many years after he was born his father left his family with another woman and soon after his family moved to California for new start (Robinson pg.4). At one point he was involved with a youth gang doing minor crimes till a pastor by the name of Karl Downs convinced him that school and religion was a better path (Robinson pgs.6 & 7). He attended John Muir High School, Pasadena Junior College and UCLA till his brother's death (Wikipedia). After this he entered into the military during WW2 in a tank battalion as a second lieutenant (Wikipedia). After the military he played for the minor league baseball team the Montreal Royals and then he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers till he quit baseball in 1956 to become a vice president of the Chock full o'Nuts coffee company as the first black executive of a major corporation (Wikipedia). He continued to advocate for equal rights and sports till his death in 1972 (Wikipedia).

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The National Portrait Gallery 

Npg.si.edu. 2022. Jackie Robinson | National Portrait Gallery. [online] Available at: <https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.97.135> [Accessed 8 May 2022].

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Wikipedia

En.wikipedia.org. 2022. Jackie Robinson - Wikipedia. [online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson#cite_note-34> [Accessed 8 May 2022].

Book

John Roosevelt Robinson. I Never Had It Made, by Jackie Robinson as Told to Alfred Duckett. New York, Putnam, 1972.

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