1. Jackie Robinson
Civil Rights has always been a major issue in the history of America. There have been many struggles and battles over this issue in our history. ... This is very important in the history of civil rights because why shouldn't a black person have the same opportunities a white person has for education? ... People were hit with baseball bats, thrown around by a fire hose, women, children, and men all included. ...
The Story That Told a Greater One Woodstock immediately comes to mind; Jackie Robinson as the first African American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers; Gandhi. All throughout history, there have been times in which a moment or event nearly summed up a generation: what happened during that time period, what the people were experiencing, the emotional state of a country, the impact of a single person all merely examples of stories that helped share a larger one. ... South Africa though, had a history with an extreme policy that separated the country in two pieces and cont...
According to Sage, " despite pervasive and systematic discrimination against African Americans, they have played a continuing and significant role in every are of American history" (p.275). ... Arguably the greatest player in the history of the game, Michael Jordan, is a black person. ... As a result of this and many other remarks, he has become hated worldwide and he has tarnished the fairly clean reputation of Major League Baseball. ...