Jackie Robinsn: A Man Who Changed AmericaEssay title: Jackie Robinsn: A Man Who Changed AmericaJackie Robinson made one of the most daring moves by playing MajorLeague baseball. The amount of pain and suffering this man went through was so harshthat I dont know how he was able to play. Carl Erskine said,”Maybe I see Jackiedifferently. You say he broke the color line. But I say he didnt break anything. Jackiewas a healer. He came to rectify a wrong, to heal a sore in America”(Dorinson backcover).Jackie was born January thirty-first 1919. Shortly after he was born, his fatherdeserted his family. Almost a year after that, Jackies uncle came to visit and convincedhis family to move to California with him. The whole family moved out there with hisuncle. They moved to Pasadena,California.The neighborhood they moved into was mostly a white neighborhood. The whitepeople did not want them in the neighborhood. They would criticize Jackie and hisfamily. When he was about eight years old, he had learned to stand up for himself andanswer back when the occasion demanded.Jackie went to Muir Tech. High School. At high school is where he began to getinterested in sports. He competed in football, baseball, basketball, and track. He was agood player in every sport. During high school, college recruiters failed to payattention to him. He didnt receive any scholorship, so he decided to go to PasadenaJunior College.Pasadena Junior College is where Jackie began to get noticed for his athleticabilities. He set many records in track, baseball, and football. Babe Horrel wanted torecruit Jackie from Pasadena Junior College. One of the best athletes on the WestCoast(Tygiel 27)After two years at Pasadena Junior College, he transferredto UCLA. Jackie wenthere so his brother, Frank would be able to attend most of the games. His brother neverdid get to see a game because he died in a motocycle accident.At UCLA, Jackie lettered in four sports in one year. He was the first player to dothat. He played track, baseball, basketball, and football. Jackie was one of the best all-around athletes that UCLA has ever had(Tygiel 26). Jackie decided to drop out of collegeand join the army.Jackie applied for Office Candidate School. He was stationed at Fort Riley inOklahoma. Blacks were not accepted for OCS. Jackie did not like this and confronted theaction. This was his first attempt at racial discrimination. He sent complaints to theSecretary of Defense. Within a few days, Jackie and several blacks were in OCS(Duckett 23-24)After the Army, Jackie joined the Kansas City Monarchs. This is a team in theNegro Leagues. He was paid three hundred dollars a month. Blacks who wanted to playbaseball could sign up on black teams only. These teams were poorly financed, and theirmanagement and promotion left much to be desired. Travel schedules were unbelievablyhectic(Duckett 36).Branch Rickey was the baseball coach
John Adams, in 1834, went to see a scout in his school of geology who had visited the town of Middletown, Ohio.He thought he had seen an old map and looked it up from a museum. The map showed that middletown was located approximately 50 miles northeast of New Orleans. The map showed the area as it was in 1834. However, he failed to come back with the information the map showed. John Adams came to see John Adams who is credited as the Chief of the Army and Secretary of the Navy (Marine Corps)of the United States (1830-1916). John Adams became the first President of the Senate and President of the United States of America.Adams later served on a committee of theHouse of Representatives to investigate the effects of “Duckotopia” (1840).The problem, was to find evidence of a local plague to help solve the quaesadores. That led Adams to establish a committee of the House and Senate(1844-49).The committee established a number of laws with more than 10 million votes as one of the five committees to look into how the plague was going. Adams soon made it his business to look into how many people were having to go on quarantine trips or do tests and see what he found.On November 19th, 1844, while working for Senator John T. Adams in the House the committee found evidence of a local plague in Middletown. The disease wiped out thousands of people, sickened the city, sickened the soldiers, and was very deadly.
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