Jackie Robinson by Julianne Page

What are they known for.

jpage601 — 2025-02-10 18:18:54 UTC

Jackie Robinson is known for his career in baseball. He was the first African American to play in the Major Leagues during the modern era. He had broken the color rule for sports.

Why did you chose this person?

jpage601 — 2025-02-10 18:30:04 UTC

We chose this person because he has a meaningful backstory. He also had changed the world in the way of sports because of the color of his skin.

Connection To Today

mbern611 — 2025-02-10 18:39:01 UTC

Jackie Robinson won the NL MVP in 1949 it had made many people's lives today influenced because of it. Robinson lit the torch and passed it on to several generations of African-American athletes.

Work Sample

jpage601 — 2025-02-10 18:40:53 UTC

John Robinson won the award for most valuable player in American league in 1995. Although it wasn't the first award he had earned. It's important because he changed America's history by being the first black person to play a sport (baseball)

Connection To The Harlem Renaissance

mbern611 — 2025-02-10 18:47:14 UTC

in the spring of 1946 he was on his way from California to Florida in the hope of becoming the first African American black person to play baseball. Robinson was up against an unwritten rule that for decades had prohibited major and minor league teams from signing black athletes. The color bar was part of an insidious system of written and unwritten rules, known as Jim Crow, that kept blacks in a separate and unequal position in the Southern states.