Mallie now had with the responsibility to raise all of her children alone. She was a maid and they were a sharecropping family who didn't get paid well. The family made it through very hard times and through financial problems. The Robinson family also faced prejudice everyday. Jackie's sister Willa Mae commented "that there was one side of the street that was named the 'white side of the street' where only white people could be.

Jackie attended John Muir Technical High School where he starred in football, basketball, baseball, and track. After high school Jackie enrolled at UCLA in September 1939. At college he continued to play football, basketball, baseball, and track. Jackie was the first student at UCLA to play and star in four sports. At UCLA he met Rachel Isumin 1940. Rachel was studying to become a nurse at UCLA Jackie and Rachel later got married February 10, 1946. After mar

Before Jackie broke the color barrier he wasn't even allowed to think about playing professional baseball in the major leagues. Jackie did what his heart told him. He wore his number forty-two jersey proudly every time he stepped out on the field. He didn't pay attention to the fact that before him there wasn't any other colored man on the Brooklyn Dodgers let alone the Major League.

When Robinson began playing to the Dodgers he received many letters. Not all of the letters were fan mail, some of the letters were hate mail and even a death threat letter. The crowd in the stands booed at Robinson because they couldn't believe thathe had broken the color barrier of baseball. Branch Rickey had warned Jackie about the reaction he would get from the fans. Branch told Jackie "that he would have to turn the other cheek and silently suffer all the vile things that would come his way."

In December 1956, Jackie was traded. He was traded from the Brooklyn Dodgers to the New York Giants. Jackie had decided that he had had enough. January 1956 Jackie announced that he was retiring from baseball. After many years Jackie was honored by being inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. They also honored Jackie by removing his jersey number (forty-two) from any other player's jersey.

Nine days after the game he died of a heart attack on October 24, 1972 in Stamford, Connecticut. Jackie Robinson will always be in some people's eyes the Most Valuable Player in the game of baseball. I personally consider him a hero because he went through many hardships yet he made it through them. He broke the color barrier in baseball, a member of the NAACP, and a good man overall. Jackie never let anyone tell him he couldn't do anything. Color didn't matter to him, you are who you are in my opinion. Because of Jack Roosevelt Robinson there are now black coaches, managers, and players. Segregation no londer exists in baseball or any other sport.

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