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Rickey said to Jackie …
Standards Link: Civics: Know that civil rights efforts strived to reduce discrepancies between ideals and the reality of American public life. said it would be difficult to be the first man to end segregation in Major League Baseball. went into the Army. When he got out, he signed on with a baseball team in the Negro Leagues. At that time, Black players were not allowed in the all-white Major Leagues. Then, on October 23, 1945, Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, asked Jackie Robinson to play for the Dodgers beginning in 1947. He fter college, Jackie
What do you think he meant by that?
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write responses to text.
ILLEGAL PASADENA BROTHER RESPECT MAJOR BRANCH FIRST DODGERS MOVIE SKIN JACKIE MILES ROOSEVELT POSE ROBINSON
A Timeline of Ending Segregation
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
n 1947, Jackie Robinson was ahead of his time when it came to ending segregation in Major League Baseball. Use the code to find out the order in which the following were integrated.
T A N E D A S A P
M L F I R
A R E I K C A J O
J E S V I S E O D
O H O
R T P C K S V R E
R O B I N S O N R
B R A N C H M O S
A B T C E P S E R
J L A G E L L I N
U.S. Armed Forces are integrated
S E L I M G
Segregated schools declared illegal
S T B D
The last Major League Baseball team is integrated
Standards Link: History: Students know that a timeline records significant events in chronological order.
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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