In 1947, Jackie Robinson used his knowledge and athletic ability to fight for African Americans in the Major League Baseball Association. Throughout his career Jackie Robinson faced many challenges that he could have just stopped and gave up, but he pushed on for the right of blacks in his era. Robinson fought with his actions on the baseball diamond not physically or even with words, he could have talked some smack, he used his ability as an athlete to prove he should be able to play with the minority race. Life as Jackie Robinson was good in some places but bad in others; he still managed to keep his life stable and a on road to glory. Robinson also had to ‘Beat the Odds,’ to prove that he could play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson also used motivation and inspiration of others to keep himself up and …show more content…
His achievement armed postwar Brooklynites with a distinctive claim to progress. Dodger fans had a long decide something special in their baseball team; Robinson depend that sense. Ebbets Field witnessed the grim reality of housing segregation on the other hand. Discriminatory federal policies had combined with block-busting realtors and fearful white homeowners (Sokol). Brooklyn’s African Americans were corralled into a few selected areas (Sokol). “Poor blacks had little choice but to pay high rent for not good ruined apartments. In Crown Heights, Brownsville, and particularly Beford-Stuyvesant, residents found sorely lacking basic services. There were little to none recreation centers, parks, or pools and if there were any they were not in the best condition. In those very same years Robinson played for the Dodgers. Their story serves as a sobering reminder about the meaning of racial progress in America; or even that the progress made isn’t really about whether we embraced famous black athletes or cultural icons