Jackie robinson a biography arnold rampersad summary
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Jackie Robinson: A Biography - Softcover
Synopsis
The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to the great ballplayer, a man of courage and quality who became a pivotal figure in the areas of race and civil rights.
Born in the rural South, the son of a sharecropper, Robinson was reared in southern California. We see him blossom there as a student-athlete as he struggled against poverty and racism to uphold the beliefs instilled in him by his mother--faith in family, education, America, and God.
We follow Robinson through World War II, when, in the first wave of racial integration in the armed forces, he was commissioned as an officer, then court-martialed after refusing to move to the back of a bus. After he plays in the Negro National League, we watch the opening of an all-American drama as, late in , Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers recognized Jack as the right player to break baseball's color barrier--and the game was forever changed.
Jack's never-before-published letters open up his relationship with his family, esp
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Thoughts From the Mountain Top
ByPatti Alivention
For some iconic figures in history, they are very well-known for one aspect or event in their life, and little is said about what their accomplishments were outside of that one thing. Such was what I knew about Jackie Robinson. I knew plenty about his breaking the racial barrier in major league baseball, but little about his life outside of that, nor his life beyond those events.
Arnold Rampersad&#;s biography of Jackie Robinson paints a much fuller and more complete portrait of the man and the legend. Not only was Jackie Robinson: A Biography an education about the subject of the biography, but it was also quite illuminating on the subject of race relations in this country. I learned quite a bit about some very prominent names in my native New York City that I had heard when I lived there, but never quite knew why their names were bantered about so much or why they had a street named for them.
Rampersad starts before Jackie was born, giving the background of his family in their rural Georgia home where they were oppressed by the local white population. The strength his mother possessed to essentially move her family out of that environment to California and achieve what she did is i
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Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Rampersad. Knopf Publication Group, $ (pp) ISBN
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