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Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson
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Walt Whitman The American Poet
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Al Capone Palm Island
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744 wordsDOB: June 16, 1971 - Brooklyn, NY DOD: September 13, 1996 - Las Vegas, NV Height: 5 ' 10 Weight: 168 Mother: Agent Shakur Father: William Garland Step Father: Jean Wayne Williams AKA Mutulu Shakur Half Sister: Sekyiwa Shakur Half Brother: Maurice Harding (Mopreme of Thug Life) Godfather: Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt Music Groups: One Nation Emcees, Two From The Crew, Strictly Dope, Digital Underground, Thug Life, Outlaw Immortal/Outlaw Aliases: MC New York, 2 Pac, Makaveli (the don) Marital Status: Di...
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Ice Cube Main Characters
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Goldman Sachs High School Program
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Late Nineteenth Century League Baseball
984 wordsHistory of Baseball Baseball seems always to have lived more in myth that in history. Children in England and the United States had been playing variants of the game for years such as rounders, one o cat, and base. In 1845, some young men in Manhattan organized themselves into the Knickerbockers BaseBall Club and wrote down the rules of the game they were playing. Twenty years later dozens of baseball clubs in New York and Brooklyn, and their journalist brethren, had made what they called the na...
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Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers
1,275 wordsJack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson He was the first black person to ever be at bat in the Major Leagues, and made his name famous. But now, everyone seems to have forgotten this great legend. So I hope that this will refresh your memory, had if you ve never heard of him this is what happened in his life: Born on January 31 1919 in Cairo Ga. , Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson, he was raised on the Sasser Plantation. He grew up without a father who left for Florida with another mans wife, leaving hi...
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1,039 wordsJackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier April 15, 1946 was an important event in not only baseball history but also in the history of America. Thousands of baseball fans crowded into Ebbits Field to see one man, the first black ever to play in Major League Baseball, and one man who would eventually put an end to segregation in baseball. That one man s name is Jack Roosevelt Robinson, otherwise known as Jackie Robinson. His struggle to break the color barrier helped set the standards for futu...
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Civil Rights Movement Jackie Robinson
645 wordsJackie Robinson was the first baseball player to break Major League Baseballs color barrier that segregated major league baseball for more than 50 years. On October 23, 1945, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Montreal Royals that would eventually bring him to the Brooklyn Dodgers in the spring of 1947. This made him the first African American in modern organized baseball. Jackie Robinson went to UCLA where he became an All-American in football and basketball. He also played baseball and...
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Door To Door Jehovahs Witnesses
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Knew It Would Be Hard Shirley Won Years
538 wordsHill Chisholm was born on November 30, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York. Her Father, Charles St. Hill was an immigrant from French Guyana (now it is called Guyana) and her mother, Ruby (Seale) was an immigrant from Barbados. Charles was a factory worker and her mother was a seamstress and a mother to help provide for the family. Young couples had a hard time making ends meet, and in hope of saving some of their money, they sent their children back to the Caribbean. Shirley at 3 years old and her 2 you...
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Childrens Books Young Adults
1,193 wordsDecember 10, 1998 Maurice Sendak and Richard Egielski Maurice Sendak and Richard Egielski are two very talented artists. Maurice Sendak is very well known for his writing and illustration of childrens books. Richard Egielski is also very talented illustrator of childrens books. Both of these men have won many awards and critical acclaim for their work. Maurice Bernard Sendak was born on June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood. His parents were Jewish immig...
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Ian Adelstein Conspiracy Theory Lot
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