Jackie Robinson Interactive Biography - Civil Rights US History Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
An interactive biography of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the first African American to play in the modern major leagues. Students follow him from Cairo, Georgia and Pasadena through four sports at UCLA, a court-martial he beat in the segregated Army, the agreement with Branch Rickey, the Dodgers years, and two decades of civil rights and business work afterward. What's Included: - Biography: five illustrated life eras, Roots and Rise, War and Proving Ground, Breaking the Barrier, Champion and Advocate, and Legacy and After Baseball, carrying the story from 1919 to 1972 - Timeline: a dual-track timeline setting 22 milestones from Robinson's life beside 15 events from the wider civil rights era - Map: fourteen numbered location markers tracing his life, including Cairo, Pasadena, UCLA, Fort Riley, the Fort Hood bus incident, the Kansas City Monarchs, Montreal, Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium, the Freedom National Bank in Harlem, Stamford, and Cooperstown - Connections: a relationship web of 22 nodes linking Robinson to Branch Rickey, Rachel Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and Bill Russell, alongside his writings, the 1944 court-martial, the 1947 debut, and the 1955 World Series - Sources and Quiz: four primary source readings, including two passages from his 1972 autobiography I Never Had It Made, Branch Rickey's words at their three-hour meeting of August 28, 1945, and a New York Post column on sport and politics,
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