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AUG 2, 1944 OCT 23, 1945
Jackie is The Montreal
SEP 1, 1940 arrested, Royals
Jackie and later Branch Rickey, the president
Robinson acquitted and general manager of the
Brooklyn Dodgers baseball
& Rachel Arrested by military team, signs Jackie Robinson
Isum meet Texas, for sitting in the to play with the Royals, the
police at Fort Hood,
Brooklyn Dodgers’ farm
The two are introduced front of an Army bus team. Rickey learned about
by Ray Bartlett on the next to a fair-skinned Robinson’s ability from
baseball scouts and Wendell
UCLA campus, when black woman who was
Jackie is a senior and thought to be white, Smith, an African-American
sports reporter for the
Rachel is a freshman. Jackie Robinson
defended himself Pittsburgh Courier.
against the court
martial and was found
not guilty of all charges.
He was honorably
discharged in 1944 A farm team is a minor-league
APR 3, 1942 after an ankle injury. team affiliated with a major
Jackie is drafted league baseball club. Many
professional players begin
into the Army their careers with a farm team
before getting called up to the
Drafted into the segregated SPRING 1945 JUN 1, 1945 affiliated major league team,
United States Army, Jackie Joining the and major league players FEB 10, 1946
Robinson befriends prizefighter Monarchs Rachel Isum often spend time training with Jackie
Joe Louis. At Fort Riley, they graduates a minor league team after
work together to challenge the Jackie Robinson joins suffering an injury. Robinson
Army to include African- the Kansas City Monarchs from UCLA and Rachel
American soldiers in Officer baseball team, a Negro
Candidate School (OCS), after Leagues team. Rachel Isum graduates Isum marry
which Robinson is accepted with honors from
into OCS and commissioned a UCLA with a Bachelor The two are married
second lieutenant. The Negro Leagues was a professional of Science degree by Reverend Downs
baseball league made up mostly of in Nursing. in Los Angeles.
African-American athletes who were
forbidden from playing on the
segregated major league teams.
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