Jackie Robinson Rough Draft

Jackie Robinson


Jackie Robinson was a hardworking man and the youngest of five children.

He was born in Cairo Georgia in 1919 during a Spanish flu. His middle

Name was in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt. His family

Were sharecroppers and after their father left them in 1920 they moved

To Pasadena California. Raised by a single mother, Jackie Robinson grew

Up in relative poverty and joined a local neighborhood gang. In 1935

He graduated from Dakota Junior High School and enrolled in John

Muir High School. There he played on various sport teams and they was:

Football, basketball, track, and baseball. In 1936 Jackie Robinson won

The junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro

Tournament and the next year he played for the high school basketball team.

After leaving his high school, Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College

Where he continued to play sports. After leaving PJC in 1940 he transferred

To University of California, Los Angeles where he became the school’s first

Athlete to win letters in four sports. He was one of our four African American

Players on the 1939 UCLA Bruins football team. In 1946 Jackie Robinson

Came to Daytona Beach, Florida for spring training with the Montreal Royals.

He was banned from playing in Jacksonville and Sanford, but not in Daytona.