Jackie Robinson: My History Day Project

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I chose Jackie Robinson as my History Day Project this year. The reason I chose Jackie is because I love sports and because sports would not be the same if it wasn't for him. I conducted my research by using the Internet. My most informational site I used was History.com. This site showed me videos of his life and early years. It helped me understand how big of an impact Jackie was on society. I also looked at an old newspaper clipping of Jackie breaking the MLB color barrier. One of the sites I tried to avoid was Wikipedia. I tried to avoid this because I wasn't sure about how true it was. While working on my project I realised all the stress Jackie was under and that it took a lot of courage in that time to break the color barrier. Jackie