Jackie robinson?
Question:What were the highlights of his life prior to becaming a professional baseball player in 1947?
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In 1919, Jackie Robinson, the youngest of five children,[4] was born in Cairo, Georgia during a Spanish Flu and Smallpox epidemic. [5] In 1920, his family moved to Pasadena, California[5] after his father abandoned them.[6]Robinson grew up in relative poverty[7] and even joined a local neighborhood gang in his youth. Eventually, his friend Carl Anderson persuaded Robinson to abandon the gang.[8]
In 1935, Robinson graduated from Dakota Junior High School and enrolled in John Muir High School ("Muir Tech").[9] There he played on various Muir Tech sport teams, and lettered in four of them. He was a shortstop and catcher on the baseball team, a quarterback on the football team, a guard on the basketball team, and a member of the tennis team and the track and field squad. He won awards in the broad jump.[10]
In 1936, he captured the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament, starred as quarterback, and earned a place on the annual Pomona baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Major League Baseball Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon. [11] The next year, Jackie played for the high school's basketball team. That year, the Pasadena Star-News newspaper reported on the young Robinson.[12]
After leaving Muir, Jackie attended Pasadena Junior College and played both football and baseball.[13] He played quarterback and safety for the football team, shortstop and leadoff batter for the baseball team, and participated in the broad jump.
While at PJC, he was elected to the "Lancers,” a student run police organization responsible for patrolling various school activities.[14] He dated and made friends. However, on January 25, 1938, he was arrested for questionable reasons and sentenced to two years probation.[15]
In 1938, he was elected to the All-Southland Junior College (baseball) Team and selected as the region's Most Valuable Player.[16] On February 4, 1939, he played his last basketball game at Pasadena Junior College. Thereupon Robinson was awarded a gold pin and was named to the school's "Order of the Mast and Dagger.”[17]
Military career
Jackie Robinson, United States Army Infantry OfficerJackie Robinson served in the United States Army from 1942-1944 as a second lieutenant, and his actions during his military service not only presaged his breaking of the color line in baseball, but may also have influenced, however indirectly, President Harry S. Truman’s decision to integrate U.S. Armed forces in 1948. As the finding aid to the Jackie Robinson Papers at the Library of Congress succinctly notes, the archive includes:
"[P]ersonnel records from Robinson's military service[] includ[ed] court-martial charges of insubordination resulting from his refusal to obey an order to move to the back of a segregated military bus in Texas. A military jury acquitted Robinson, and shortly thereafter, he received an honorable discharge.”[18]
Jackie thus revealed himself to be a man of principle and courage years before he entered the public eye. His July 6, 1944 refusal to submit to Jim Crow laws while in the military pre-date, by more than a decade, a similar, but much more widely-known “stance” by Rosa Parks, who famously refused to give up her seat on a public bus in 1955. [19] At his August 2, 1944 court martial, Jackie was found innocent of insubordination. He was honorably discharged from military duty on November 28, 1944, but his story, and his resistance to hatred rooted in bizarre notions spawned by scientific racism and popular predjudice had only really just begun.[20]
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great basket ball playerIn 1919, Jackie Robinson, the youngest of five children,was born in Cairo, Georgia during a Spanish Flu and Smallpox epidemic. In 1920, his family moved to Pasadena, California after his father abandoned them.
Robinson grew up in relative poverty and even joined a local neighborhood gang in his youth. Eventually, his friend Carl Anderson persuaded Robinson to abandon the gang
In 1935, Robinson graduated from Dakota Junior High School and enrolled in John Muir High School ("Muir Tech").[There he played on various Muir Tech sport teams, and lettered in four of them. He was a shortstop and catcher on the baseball team, a quarterback on the football team, a guard on the basketball team, and a member of the tennis team and the track and field squad. He won awards in the broad jump.
In 1936, he captured the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament, starred as quarterback, and earned a place on the annual Pomona baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Major League Baseball Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon. The next year, Jackie played for the high school's basketball team. That year, the Pasadena Star-News newspaper reported on the young Robinson.
After leaving Muir, Jackie attended Pasadena Junior College and played both football and baseball. He played quarterback and safety for the football team, shortstop and leadoff batter for the baseball team, and participated in the broad jump.
While at PJC, he was elected to the "Lancers,” a student run police organization responsible for patrolling various school activities. He dated and made friends. However, on January 25, 1938, he was arrested for questionable reasons and sentenced to two years probation.
In 1938, he was elected to the All-Southland Junior College (baseball) Team and selected as the region's Most Valuable Player.[On February 4, 1939, he played his last basketball game at Pasadena Junior College. Thereupon Robinson was awarded a gold pin and was named to the school's "Order of the Mast and Dagger.”.
Jackie Robinson served in the United States Army from 1942-1944 as a second lieutenant, and his actions during his military service not only presaged his breaking of the color line in baseball, but may also have influenced, however indirectly, President Harry S. Truman’s decision to integrate U.S. Armed forces in 1948. As the finding aid to the Jackie Robinson Papers at the Library of Congress succinctly notes, the archive includes:
"[P]ersonnel records from Robinson's military service[] includ[ed] court-martial charges of insubordination resulting from his refusal to obey an order to move to the back of a segregated military bus in Texas. A military jury acquitted Robinson, and shortly thereafter, he received an honorable discharge.”
Jackie thus revealed himself to be a man of principle and courage years before he entered the public eye. His July 6, 1944 refusal to submit to Jim Crow laws while in the military pre-date, by more than a decade, a similar, but much more widely-known “stance” by Rosa Parks, who famously refused to give up her seat on a public bus in 1955. At his August 2, 1944 court martial, Jackie was found innocent of insubordination. He was honorably discharged from military duty on November 28, 1944, but his story, and his resistance to hatred rooted in bizarre notions spawned by scientific racism and popular predjudice had only really just begun.
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he graduated U.C.LA. was great running back ,track and basketball.Nice to see that some people know how to copy out of an encyclopedia. I'll try to remember the facts I learned by reading biographies of this amazing man.
Jackie was the first 4 sport letterman at UCLA. (baseball, football, basketball and track) An officer in the Army where he fought the back of the bus nonsense and got court marshalled. He played pro football a bit and played in the Negro Leagues.
Another factoid I learned recently is that his big brother Mack was the silver medalist behind Jesse Owens at the Olympics in Germany. 1936 I think.
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