Jack Roosevelt Robinson
- Jackie Robinson, born Jack Roosevelt Robinson
in 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers, he grew
up in Pasadena California.
- Broke the color barrier in major league
baseball in 1947 by becoming the first African-American
player
- Named National League Rookie of the Year in
1947
- Starred in The Jackie Robinson Story in
1950
- Established the Jackie Robinson Construction
Company in 1970 to build housing for low income
families