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SPRING 1936
Star high school
athlete FEB 1, 1937
At John Muir Technical High Pasadena
School, Jackie Robinson earns
a place on the annual Pomona Junior
JAN 31, 1919 Tournament All-Star baseball
team; wins the Southland Class
Jackie A long-jump title with a 23’, 1” College
Robinson leap; and captures the junior Jackie Robinson
enrolls in Pasadena
boys’ singles championship in
is born the annual Pacific Coast Negro Junior College, where
he continues to be a
Jack Roosevelt Tennis Tournament. star athlete.
Robinson is born
to Jerry and FEB 15, 1939
Mallie Robinson Enrolling at
in Cairo, Georgia.
UCLA
While at UCLA,
Jackie Robinson excels
and letters in football,
basketball, track, and
JUN 1, 1920 JAN, 1938 baseball, still the only
Move to JUL 19, 1922 Reverend athlete in UCLA’s
history to have lettered
Pasadena, Rachel Isum Karl Downs in four sports. He
leaves school in his
California is born Reverend Downs, an senior year to help his
After a journey activist preacher, moves mother support the
family and secures a
that began on Jackie’s future wife, to Pasadena where job as Assistant Athletic
May 21, 1920, Rachel, is born to he meets Robinson Director at the National
Mallie Robinson Charles and Zelle Isum and mentors him Youth Administration.
and her five children, in Los Angeles, California. during adolescence,
including one-year- becoming a key figure
old Jackie, arrive in Robinson’s life.
in Pasadena.

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