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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson is born
Born in Cairo Georgia, the fifth child of Mallie and Jerry Robinson. This was the day Jackie Robinson came into the world and from that point on he would be led in a direction the world would not expect, becoming the first Black man in Major League Baseball. -
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Jackie Robinson's rise to the MLB
- All the way from small time sports to being the best player on the Brooklyn Dodgers and the first black man in Major League Baseball
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Jackie enrolls at UCLA
- Becomes the school's first 4 letter man meaning he accelled at 4 different sports. This was the first indication that Jackie could have a future with sports. Also he did not think much of Baseball
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Jackie meets Rachel Isum whom later becomes his wife
-Rachel was the driving force behind Jackie's baseball career always helping him when he was battling the racism he ran into. -
Post UCLA, Jackie is hired to semi pro football team
- Hired to play on the Honolulu Bears. First game was in Pearl Harbor two days before December 7 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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Jackie enlists into the US Army
- After two years of service he was discharged from the army because he refused to move to the back of a segregated bus. This was when his view of segregation changed and he bagan to fight it.
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Robinson joins minor league team the Kansas City Monarchs
- This was the first official baseball team Robinson played for
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Jackie Robinson becomes a player on the Brooklyn Dodgers
- This is the monumental day when he first walks onto Ebbets field breaking the color line forever in human history thus becoming the first black man in the MLB.
