Jack Roosevelt Robinson.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson, baseball player and civil rights activist, was born in Cairo, Georgia, on January 31, 1919. He was a great husband of Rachel Isum, a nursing student he met at UCLA, in 1946, and father of three children, Jackie Jr., Sharon and David. He grew up in a large single-parent family. He was the youngest of five children, and he was raised in relative poverty by a single mother. Robinson was the first African- American who had the chance to join in the major leagues for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His black family was the only one in the block where he lived in. No one thought that from this humble would grow the first baseball player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier. He was different from his siblings. Sports were everything for him. At only age ten he said: “Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.” It is wonderful how Robinson related life with sports at that age. Robinson attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, where he was an excellent athlete. At that time, he played 4 sports: baseball, basketball, track, and football. His brother, Matthew Robinson, was the one who inspired Jackie to follow his talent and love for sports. Jackie continued his education at the University of California, Los Angeles. In this period he became the best athlete in his school. Because of financial difficulties, he was forced to leave college, and he moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he played football for the semi-professional Honolulu Bears. This was for a short time because United States entered into World War II, and he decided to join in the U.S. Army. From 1942 to 1944, Robinson served to U.S Army, but after two years in there, Jackie's army career was cut after he refused to move to the back of a bus during training. After that he was court-martialed in relation to his incidents and racial...