Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Jackie Robinson

6. I feel that Jackie Robinson should be able to be ranked as one of the greatest civil rights figures. He certainly isn't the greatest but he should be up there with MLK and Rosa Parks. Jackie Robinson did an unprecedented thing by joining the white baseball league. Robinson took verbal, emotion and physical abuse from teams, players, fans and even teammates. While taking all of this, he never argued back, he never started violence. He just kept playing baseball. Robinson in a way practiced peaceful protests by turning the other way to racial comments and just palying baseball. He never backed down to his oposition. For these reasons, he should be considered to be ranked as one of the great civil rights figures among MLK.

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