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Jackie Robinson always went his own way, answering to his own instincts and refusing to be swayed by those who objected to his choices. He never took for granted his role as a trailblazer in the integration of sports and the opening of opportunities for blacks in the United States. As Frommer wrote, "Just as Robinson had placed his stamp on baseball, his historic role in baseball had stamped him." By being a man with incredible physical skills, mental fortitude, and competitive fire who arrived in the right place and at the right time in history, Robinson had a major impact on the black struggle for equality in the twentieth century.
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Jackie Robinson was born in 1919 at Cairo, Georgia, and died in 1972. Robinson later attended Muir Technical High School in Pasadena, Jackie than had developed to a all-round athlete. ( The Lincoln Library of Sports Champions #15.)
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At John Muir High School, Robinson starred on several of the school's athletic teams. In 1938, he began attending Pasadena Junior College, where he continued to excel in sports. In 1940, Robinson transferred to the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), where he became known as one of the best collegiate athletes in the United States. Robinson was the first man in the school's history to earn varsity letters in four sports. An All-America running back in football, he ... competed in track and field - breaking his older brother's national record in the broad jump - and led the league in scoring while on the basketball team. Ironically, baseball was not Robinson's best sport, nor the one he most enjoyed.
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The grandson of a slave, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was the youngest of five children and spent his early years in Georgia. After his father deserted the family when Jackie was six months old, his mother, Mallie Robinson, moved the family to California in search of work. California ... subjected blacks to segregation at that time, but to less of a degree than in the deep South. The young Jackie defused his anger over this prejudice by immersing himself in sports. He displayed extraordinary athletic skills in high school, excelling at football, basketball, baseball, and track. After helping Pasadena Junior College win the Junior College Football Championship, Robinson took his athletic prowess to the University of California at Los Angeles and became a top collegiate running back in 1939.
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Born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an infant when he, his mother and his four siblings were abandoned by his father. His mother, Mallie Robinson, moved the family to Pasadena, California. Growing up in Pasadena, young Jackie excelled in sports but got into occasional minor trouble running with sort of a teenage "gang." His mother, a devout Methodist who did domestic work, held the family together. Jackie's older brother won a silver medal behind Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Jackie attended and graduated from John Muir Technical High school and Pasadena Community College, then transferred to UCLA, where he met his future wife, Rachel Islum, a straight-A student. At UCLA Robinson lettered in four sports: baseball, football, basketball, and track.
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Jackie was born January 31, 1919, in Pasadena, California. In high school, Jackie excelled in athletics. After high school, Jackie went to one of the best athletic schools in the nation, in UCLA. When athlete intends to play a sport in college he or she usually play only one sport, not Jackie. While in college, Jackie played football, basketball, track, and baseball. After college Jackie decided to join the armed forces.
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