Chapter Six Try It Application Exercise Part I After reading the text and reviewing the corresponding power point slides you will now apply your knowledge in the following “Try It” exercises. These a

Chapter Six Try It Application Exercise Part I After reading the text and reviewing the corresponding power point slides you will now apply your knowledge in the following “Try It” exercises. These a
Part I l : Paragraphs — WRITING REVOLUTIONO Part 5: Reading Jackie Robinson HISTORY.COM Editors (modified) In 1947, Jackie Robinson, a talented and versatile player, broke baseball’s color barrier when he began to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year award his first season, and helped the Dodgers win the National League championship — the first of his six trips to the World Series. In 1949, Robinson won the league MVP award, and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Despite his skill, Robinson faced a barrage of insults and threats because of his race. The courage and grace with which Robinson handled the abuses inspired a generation of African Americans to question the doctrine of “separate but equal” and helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement. When general manager Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers offered Robinson the chance to break organized baseball’s powerful but unwritten color line, the fiery ballplayer accepted and agreed to Rickey’s condition: that he not respond to the abuse he would face. Jackie Robinson’s Baseball Career Jackie Robinson’s debut in organized baseball (April 18, 1946, with the Montreal Royals of the International League, the Dodgers’ best farm club) is now a legend In five at-bats he hit a three-run homer and three singles, stole two bases, and scored four times, twice by forcing the pitcher to balk. Promoted to the Dodgers the following spring, Robinson thrived on the pressure and established himself as the most exciting player in baseball. His playing style combined traditional elements of black sports—the opportunistic risk-taking known as “tricky baseball” in the Negro Leagues—with an aggressive style of play. In their response to Jackie Robinson, African Americans rejected “separate but equal” status and embraced integration; huge numbers flocked to see the Dodgers from great distances. THE WRITING [email protected] African American sportswriters, many of whom had advocated baseball integration for years, focused their attentions on Robinson and the black players who followed him. His success encouraged the integration of professional football, basketball, and tennis, while the Negro Leagues, which in a sense depended on segregation, began an irreversible decline, losing ballplayers, spectators and reporters. During his first two years with the Dodgers, Robinson kept his word to Rickey and endured astonishing abuse amid national scrutiny without fighting back. His dignified courage in the face of virulent racism—from jeers and insults to beanballs, hate mail, and death threats—commanded the admiration of whites as well as blacks and foreshadowed the tactics that the 1960s Civil Rights Movement would develop into the theory and practice of nonviolence. Jackie Robinson and Civil Rights Robinson, however, finally broke his emotional and political silence in 1949, becoming an outspoken and controversial opponent of racial discrimination. He criticized the slow pace of baseball integration and objected to the Jim Crow practices in the Southern states where most clubs held spring training. Robinson led other ballplayers in urging baseball to use its economic power to desegregate Southern towns, hotels and ballparks. Since most baseball teams integrated relatively calmly, the “Jackie Robinson experiment” provided an important example of successful desegregation to ambivalent white political and business leaders. When he retired from baseball in 1957, Robinson sought to bring the same tactics to bear on increasing African American employment opportunities. His lifelong struggle continued to his last public appearance, nine days before he died: He told television viewers of an Old-Timers’ Game, “I’d like to live to see a black manager.’ Adapted from: History.com Editors (2019, June 7). Jackie Robinson. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson WRITING REVOLUTION. Part 6: Summary Sentence Directions.• Write a Summary Sentence related to the Jackie Robinson article. Who/What: (did/will do) What When Where• How• Summary Sentence: