Jackie Robinson Influences

magine every time you go out to play you get made fun of and spit on or you hear the phrase “Nigger you don’t belong here!” You can 't go anywhere without this happening, these are the types of things Jackie Had to experience. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Grady County, Georgia. Jackie Robinson is sought out to be one of the most influential leaders and athletes of his time and arguably the world and he is the first African American to play in professional baseball, the MLB. During the prime time of his life he endured going to war, being the most hated player in the MLB, and he was a traveling Civil Rights activist. Jackie Robinson should be remembered because he was such an influence to many African Americans because he was inspirational as a child, he was a national racism civil rights activist and a Hall of Fame MLB player. Growing up for Robinson was tough. He was from a small city in Georgia called Cairo. He came from a poor family. Jackie mother was a member of a prosperous black family and his father was a sharecropper. As a young colored child Jackie was introduced to racism. As far as not being able to go to the same restroom as white people, drinking from different water fountains, and even not being to go to the same stores and restaurants as whites.

As Jackie got older he was noticed for his athletic abilities. His classmates would give him things like sandwiches and dimes in exchange to be on his team. His brother Mack said that he noticed that Robinson would be great at an early age stating “he was about three years old and he owned a tricycle. “One of his greatest joys was hopping on that tricycle and speeding around chairs like a hot-rodder all around the house”. “Even then, his judgment was keen, and he had good balance.” As a child Jackie had God given