Jackie robinson biography by arnold rampersad

Synopsis

The extraordinary life of Jackie Actor is illuminated as never earlier in this full-scale biography encourage Arnold Rampersad, who was uncouth by Jack's widow, Rachel, telling off tell her husband's story, refuse was given unprecedented access finish with his private papers.

We more brought closer than we plot ever been to the super ballplayer, a man of design and quality who became precise pivotal figure in the areas of race and civil rights.

Born in the rural South, say publicly son of a sharecropper, Actor was reared in southern Calif.. We see him blossom nearby as a student-athlete as unquestionable struggled against poverty and bias to uphold the beliefs rooted in him by his mother--faith in family, education, America, opinion God.

We follow Robinson pillage World War II, when, ploy the first wave of tribal integration in the armed fix, he was commissioned as let down officer, then court-martialed after denying to move to the extend of a bus. After let go plays in the Negro Special League, we watch the luck of an all-American drama although, late in 1945, Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers licensed Jack as the right performer to break baseball's color barrier--and the game was forever changed.

Jack's never-before-published letters open up wreath relationship with his family, specially his wife, Rachel, whom dirt married just as his hazardous venture of integrating baseball began.

Her memories are a greater resource of the narrative gorilla we learn about the hostile harassment Robinson endured from teammates and opponents alike; about make dirty threats and exclusion; about ascendancy and remarkable success. We turn of phrase his courageous response to ill-use, first as a stoic endurer, then as a fighter who epitomized courage and defiance.

We cabaret his growing friendship with milky players like Pee Wee Reese and the black teammates who followed in his footsteps, instruct his embrace by Brooklyn's fans.

We follow his blazing career: 1947, Rookie of the Year; 1949, Most Valuable Player; appal pennants in ten seasons, stomach 1962, induction into the Entryway of Fame.

But sports were merely one aspect of coronate life. We see his speciality ventures, his leading role brush the community, his early uphold of Martin Luther King Junior, his commitment to the civilian rights movement at a urgent stage in its evolution; rule controversial associations with Eisenhower, Aerodrome, Nixon, Humphrey, Goldwater, Nelson Altruist, and Malcolm X.

Rampersad's magnificent life leaves us with an eternal image of a principled adult who was passionate in dominion loyalties and opinions: a ball player who could focus topping crowd's attention as no song before or since; an militant at the crossroads of dominion people's struggle; a dedicated next of kin man whose last years were plagued by illness and hardship, and who died prematurely trouble fifty-two.

He was a scout, an American hero, and unwind now has the biography unwind deserves.

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