How Did Jackie Robinson Break The Color Barrier

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Jackie Robinson was a black athlete who was the first black player to join the White major league baseball team.Throughout his career he got hate, and he finally decided to have a civil rights movement for blacks to play white men sports. He went out of his way for blacks to be able to play white man sports in 1947 after World war II.

Jackie Robinson was in the United states Army as a second lieutenant in 1942 to 1944, he never saw combat, but he was arrested and court-martialed for not giving up his seat in a bus. After he was arrested we went on to join the Baseball career since he can’t play with the whites in sports he joined a Negro league. Then a miracle happened Brooklyn dodgers took a risk to break the color barrier, the coach of the Brooklyn dodgers thought only way of breaking this barrier is to find the right man.
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Many people started targeting Jackie by his career and his life, they want him to leave, they wanted him dead. He didn’t care to listen he went on with his career and helped the Dodgers win the championship.

After he played for the Dodgers he went on to help other sports teams to break the color barrier. He wanted all blacks the right to play any white man sport. White’s have kept blacks out of sports for over 60 year. But since Jackie Robinson kept the civil rights movement intact for blacks play white man sports. Talking about him helping blacks to play white man sports it shows that he wanted them to play, later on in his life he got what he wanted.

Jackie Robinson had tough times in his career, he had hate but Jackie Robinson didn’t listen. Blacks weren't able to play sports but Jackie Robinson wanted blacks to play white sports. He was arrested for not giving up his seat, he wasn’t happy about blacks being treated