Jackie Robinson made one of the most daring moves by playing Major
League baseball. The amount of pain and suffering this man went through was so harsh
that I don't know how he was able to play. Carl Erskine said,"Maybe I see Jackie
differently. You say he broke the color line. But I say he didn't break anything. Jackie
was a healer. He came to rectify a wrong, to heal a sore in America"(Dorinson back
cover).
Jackie was born January thirty-first 1919. Shortly after he was born, his father
deserted his family. Almost a year after that, Jackie's uncle came to visit and convinced
his family to move to California with him. The whole family moved out there with his
uncle. They moved to Pasadena,California.
The neighborhood they moved into was mostly a white neighborhood. The white
people did not want them in the neighborhood. They would criticize Jackie and his
family. When he was about eight years old, he had learned to stand up for......
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