Mt. Eden Computer Applications 1 Class

The Jackie Robinson Story:

“To the average man in the average American community, Jackie Robinson was just what the sports pages said he was, no more, no less. He was the first Negro to play baseball in the major leagues. Everybody knew that. . . . In remembering him, I tend to ed-emphasize him as a ball player and emphasize him as an informal civil rights leader. That's the part that drops out, that people forget.”

~ Rachel Robinson

 

 Jack Roosevelt Robinson (1919-72), the first black man to “officially” play in the big leagues in the 20th century, possessed enormous physical talent and a fierce determination to succeed. In the course of a distinguished 10-year career beginning in 1947, Robinson led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six National League titles and one victorious World Series.

Beyond his many and stellar baseball feats, when he retired from the game, Jackie Robinson went on to become a successful corporate executive and a champion for the cause of civil rights.

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Letter to the President...

Letter Story:

The Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that States must integrate their public schools, but few began to do so voluntarily.

Although Arkansas had begun desegregation elsewhere in its school system, in September 1957 Governor Orval Faubus, hoping to gain political favor, used National Guardsmen to block entry of nine black students who were supposed to attend Little Rock's Central High School that school term. Faubus alleged that without such action, violence would have erupted.

When President Eisenhower reluctantly sent in Federal troops to protect the students and ensure their right to be at Central High, Jackie Robinson, now a coffee and food vending executive, was reasonably pleased although he believed that decisive Presidential action on civil rights was overdue. Over the years, he had grown increasingly impatient with what he regarded as Eisenhower's failure to face up to the hard facts:

Not only did racism exist, so did white efforts to physically intimidate Southern blacks who dared to challenge segregation. He therefore called upon President Eisenhower to guarantee the Federal Government's support of black attempts to exercise rights already granted under the Constitution but in practice was denied them because of white resistance.

 

 

Recreate the letter in WORD:

click here for the WORD file to start from

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You will make it look like this...

Get Jackie's signature...

As you work save your completed file in your folder in the Documents folder on your computer.

WHEN YOU ARE DONE...

TURN IT IN THROUGH GOOGLE CLASSROM.

This assignment is worth 40 assignment points.