When he left the Army, he played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League in 1945. ... Just one year later, he was the first black man to play for any Major League team The main characters of the story are Jackie Robinson and Mallie Robinson. ...
Many people fought for equal rights for African Americans prior to the movement, but the major changes did not occur until 1955. The first major change was the desegregation of schools in 1954. ... In 1947, Jackie Robinson was the first black man to play on a major league baseball team. ...
He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League of Gileadites, an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers. ... Despite his contributions to the antislavery cause, Brown did not emerge as a figure of major significance until 1855 after he followed five of his sons to the Kansas territory. ...
Washington made the institution into a major center for industrial and agricultural training and in the process became a well-known public speaker." ... "Washington was the organizer (1900) of the National Negro Business League, a group committed to black economic independence. ...
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 ...
Webster's dictionary defines discrimination as a social, economical, political or legal distinction made between individuals or groups that makes one have the power to treat the others unfavorably. It can also be defined as the act or policy of treating someone differently, setting them apart or den...
Mandela effectively included in the opposition to politically sanction the ANC, a little gathering of youthful Africans united together, calling themselves the African National Congress Youth League. ... As a pioneer of Satygraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. ...
