BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROJECT BY : SCOTT GIBERSON PERIODS 4 - 5

1. BLACKHISTORYMONTHPROJECTBY:SCOTT GIBERSON PERIODS 4 - 5

2. Achievements • Achievements-In 1935 he had graduated from Washington Junior High School and then enrolled at John Muir high school (Muir Tech).He was recognized by his athletic talents. Robinson’s older brother Mack was also an accomplished athlete and a silver medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics that Frank inspired Jackie to pursue his interest in sports. At Muir Tech ,Robinson played various sports at the varsity level and had lettered in four of them:such as football, basketball, track, and baseball.He played shortstop ,catcher on the baseball team,quarterback on the football team and guard on the basketball team as well.On the trackfield squad he won awards in the broadjump.He was a member of the tennis team .In 1936 Robinson had won the Junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro tennis Tournament .This had earned him a spot on the Pomona Annual Baseball Tournament All Star ,which had included the future Hall of famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon. By late January 1937 The Pasadena StarNews a newspaper that Robinson for two years has been the outstanding athlete at Muir ,starring in football, basketball rack, baseball and then tennis .

3. In January 31,1919 Jackie Robinson was born into a family of sharecroppers in Cairo Georgia. When there was a Spanish flu and some smallpox also epidemic. Jackie Robinson was the youngest of five children. After his siblings Edgar, Frank,Mathew(Whois nicknamed Mack)and Wilma Mae.his middle name was in honor of former president Theoder Roosevelt who died twenty five daysd before Jackie Was born.After Jackie robinsons father left the th family in 1920 a year after robinson was born and then they moved to Pasenda.Jackierobinsons mother had a jod at various odd jobs to support the family. Growing up in the relative poverty in an otherwise an affluent community.Jackierobinson and his minority friends were actually excluded from  many recreational opportunities .As A result Jackie Robinson joined a niebor hood groud or a gang and his friend Carl Anderson persuaded him to adandon it.

4. Education AFTER attending Muir high school Jackie John Muir High School Robinson attended Pasenda Junior college. He then continued an athletic career by beginning basketball, football, and then base ball. The he did some track thing. But he only participated in the football team. He was quarter back and his brother Mack held records for the broad jump records. Jackie Robinson also was a short stop and lead off Hits for the baseball team. At Muir High School most of his teammates were different from him. When he played football at Pasenda Junior college and that is when Jackie Robinson had suffered his fractured ankle. Jackie Robinson Had complications had a delay in his deployment status in the military .He was elected to the Lancers at Pac a student run police organization responsible for the patrol of various school activities .by 1938 he had been elected to the All Southland Junior College Team for baseball and selected as the region’s most valuable player. The same year Robinson was one of ten students named to the school’s order of the Mast and Dagger (the Omicron my Delta).This was awarded to the students performing .

5. More information about his education outstanding service to the school and whose scholastic and citizenship record was worthy of recognition. The following incident at PJC illustrated Robinsons very impatience with the authority figures had had perceived as racist the character trait that resurfaced repeatedly in his life. On January 25,1938 he was arrested after verbally disputing the detention of a friend by the police. Robinson then had received a two year suspended sentence. The incident along with other run-ins between Robinson and police that gave him a reputation for combativeness in the face of the racial antagonism .towards the end of his pjc tenure, Frank Robinson to whom he felt closer to of his three brothers had been killed in a motorcycle accident. The event had made Jackie motivated to pursue his athletic career at the nearby University of California. This where he remained closer to his brother Frank’s family.

6. Additional Information • Jackie Robinson had died in January 31 (1919-01-31)His career statistics were pretty good. His batting average was .311,his hitting average was 1,518,he scored 137 home runs, he also got 734 runs batted in and he stole 197 bases. Between on a tour he had surgery done on his ankle. In 1950 he led the National league in the double plays made by a second baseman with 133.Before it was the 1951 season Jackie Robinson O’Malley reportedly offered to him the job of a manager of the Montreal Royals until it was effective by the end of his playing baseball career. In the following autumn in 1955 he won his only Champion ship in that time of the world series. But then 1956 Jackie Robinson had gotten to exhibit the effects of diabetes and then he soon lost his interest to play as a professional Baseball player. So then Jackie Robinsons major league debut had then brought an end to an approximate 60 years of segregation in the professional base ball, which was also known as a baseball color line. But did you now he also helped out in the army?

7. OPINION I think Jackie Robinson is an awesome Baseball player and that it is cool how he accomplished all of these awards in his life. That this person had a great life playing baseball. I feel like that this person in my opinion he is really cool for doing such a great job in playing base ball and all of his awards and the great job he did to get into the world series baseball.

8. 1939- Named southern California junior college was the most valuable base ball player team. 1946- Named as the most valuable player of the International League while playing for the Montreal Royals Brooklyn Dodger- affiliated farm team. 1949- The leagues with the highest amount of batting average which is (.342) and most of the stolen bases(37) 1949- Named national League most valuable player

9. 1949- Jackie Robinson was selected for the ALL star team. 1952- The leads league is with an on base-percentage of .440 1962- He was inducted into the Baseball hall of fame on July 23, 1962

10. Bibliography • http:///timelines.com • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Rob http://www.answers.com/topic/jackie-robinson http://www.jackierobinson.com/inson • http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/robinson_j.htm • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/ http://www.spotlight.ucla.edu/alumni/jackie-robinson/