In this paper the author
examines the life of Jackie Robinson, not just as a
baseball player, but as a hero to many Americans.
The author looks at Robinson as the man who broke the color barrier in
baseball, a man who demonstrated amazing courage in becoming baseball's first African-American player. The paper
examines and highlights how Robinson always seemed to overcome prejudice in every phase of his life from his education to his stint in the army and to his playing in the major baseball leagues. The paper looks at how a baseball player like Robinson affected the history of the American nation and the civil rights movement. In conclusion the author reiterates Robinson as one of the greatest role models and heroes of the twentieth century. He states that without his bravery, in the eyes of racial injustice, African-Americans may have very well been still riding on the back of the bus.