Branch Rickey, the baseball team executive of Brooklyn Dodgers, who always supported Jackie Robinson but at the same time endured certain hardships during the process of helping Jackie overcome the color discrimination and prejudices from White.
Back in the 1940s, it was the period when racism, subjugation and inequality toward blacks were so strong that they were nearly being enforced like a law. The White class and the Black class were kept apart ranging from the washroom written "White only" to the courts where site area is divided based on skin color. Jackie, as a black baseball player, is not welcomed certainly. Once he took the field, the audience shoot at him that he didn't belong here; a cop asked him to get off the field because it against the unwritten law-"no nigger can mix with white boys"; the Dodgers is not welcomed as long as the nigger is in there. What is the worse is he even got dead threat.
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Throughout the whole movie, he always took Jackie sides against many time's racisms. After Jackie became part of Dodgers, Rickey asked the team manager to treat Jackie fairly or he will be unemployed, as such, the employer will easily hold the grudge to him. And when Dodger's teammates refused to play with Jackie within the same team and even came up with a petition, Rickey stood up for Jackie. Furthermore, there was one time when Jackie was about to go to a city with his team for a competition, the manager from another team refused to let Jackie come along. But Rickey insisted in doing so, "God build him to the