Jackie+Robinson

= = Jackie Robinson by Jarom and Ahmad

He was born in January 31, 1919 in Georgia.
==His famliy was poor. He moved to California to have better life. He worked and gave his mother the money. White people treated his family unfairly. He was a star in sports in high school. He left college to earn money for family. He joined the U.S. Army. The men in charge treated him badliy because he was black. When he left the army, he played baseball for a black team called the Monarchs in 1945 because he was not allowed to play in the major leagues. In 1947, he became the first African American player on a major league team called the Brooklyn Dodgers. He played for the Dogers for 10 years even though people treated him unfairly because he was black. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame 1962. He was the first African American to be honored that way. He died in 1972.==