seen and greatly helped major league baseball accept African American players that otherwise

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Hill 1). Jackie's

grandfather was a slave and his father a sharecropper (1). His mom and dad got a divorce when

Jackie was just a baby (1). He, his mother and four siblings moved after his parents got a divorce

(1). His mother took all the children and moved to Pasedena, California (1).

Not long after the family moved to Pasedena, Jackie's mother enrolled him into Pasedena Junior

College ("Robinson, Jackie"). He went on to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) (1).

Jackie was a standout in school sports at UCLA, he played football, baseball, basketball, and track

(1). He later left college in the middle of his junior year to join the Army in 1941 (1). Four years

after entering the Army Jackie was discharged because of a confrentation with another officer when

he would not give up his se

because race was not really an issue in Canada and he was very popular all over the country

289). The LA Dodgers also retired his number (Ward, Burns 289). He opened a chain of

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