How Did Jackie Robinson Survive A Loss Of Injustice

Did you know that the whole age of injustice towards individual groups of people spanned over 345 years? The injustice started in 1619 when 20 individuals came from Africa on a ship which they were sent to Jamestown to be sold as slave workers. After over 200 years, in 1865, slave was finally abolished with the 13th Amendment after 4 years of fighting in the Civil War. Even after this, injustice was still to be found in America although slavery had been abolished. People were still treating colored people different and they had different rights than a white person until 1968 when the Civil Rights Movement finally gave the same rights to each and every person in the United States. People in the United States survived injustice throughout U.S.

history, one of these was Jackie Robinson who survived injustice through silent dignity. An example of Jackie Robinson’s silent dignity is in The Noble Experiment where it stated, “ ‘Mr. Rickey,’ I asked, ‘are you looking for a black who is afraid to fight back?’ I never will forget the way he exploded. ‘Robinson,’ he said, ‘I’m looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back’ ” (Robinson/Duckett). This explains that Mr. Rickey was looking for someone to be able to not fight back with all of these remarks racist and rude remarks and it was that who made the individual strong. The guts to not fight back even when your heart, mind, and body are all telling you to is what Mr. Rickey was looking for and what Jackie Robinson had in himself in order to overcome injustices in his baseball career. Even with the opposing team, the fans, and even his teammates showing racism towards Jackie, he never faltered towards this injustice and his playing showed this. Jackie changed the MLB as he eventually became the rookie of the year in MLB as well as the MVP of the league. These marvelous achievements from Jackie eventually paved the way for African Americans in America with his silent dignity since he never faltered to the words of people and showed his game changing play of baseball and created a revolution in

John Brown shows his violence in multiple raids for example, in John Brown’s Violent Rebellion t-chart where it states, “In 1859, John Brown, with 18 to 20 other people, attack the armory at Harpers Ferry”(John Brown T chart). John Brown chose to take a violent and aggressive manner of handling his viewpoint of slavery. When he attacks Harpers Ferry he had the plan of acquiring more weapons for him and his group in order to advance in the fight against slavery. His violence led to the death of many who did believe in slavery as well as the death of many who were opposed as they would go out and risk their lives to end slavery. John Brown gave others against slavery the power and will to take action and fight against the act of slavery as his and his sons’ bravery proved be one of the major points of injustice that led to the gruesome Civil War and the eventual 13th Amendment that ended