How Did Sam Lacy Impact The Lives Of African Americans?

Throughout history a lot of historical things went on in the United States, and one is racism throughout the year 1900 or even more years back people treated African Americans poorly everywhere even baseball and other sports and one guy named Sam Lacy , Lacy was born in 1903 and died in 2003. He was born in Connecticut and stayed there for a lot of his life playing sports and then went to college at Howard University. When he was born there was racism going on whites treated blacks very poorly and didn't let them do a lot of things. Lacy father was the first black cop and he helped his son do a lot of things through his life his father was a star to lacy and he wanted to show his father he could change people.

Baseball players and Writers

Sam was a great man he saw different things around baseball and in this sport he impacted a lot of people in his life. One impact things he did was that he stood out the must was he accomplished to have blacks play Major League Baseball, he helped pass that in 1947 and that was Jackie Robinson and that would change baseball and the outlook for blacks and other racist groups around the world.When the color line was cut blacks started to show up and play and be good at it and and Sam Lacy was one that impacted it by helping and standing his ground with baseball and whites. This change was important to baseball and to the world. It showed that anyone can play or do anything with whited and do the same at anything. Sam was a great guy and he worked hard for the sport he loved and helped out his fellow friends that loved the sport as well and to fulfill African Americans to play in the Major leagues. He himself accomplished a lot in his life to baseball. He impacted not only blacks but whites as well. “ He Sam impacted a lot of people he was the must important pioneers for civil rights in the last half century” Bud Selig was then man that said that and he is the commissioner of Baseball at the time. Also in 2014 they honored sam in the movie “42” of Jackie Robinson and Sam. He was the reporter and of course Jackie the player. He