Exercise 10C:

 

 

 

Ways to fight discrimination:

 

By Jackie Robinson:

 

1) Collegiate athletics had been haphazardly integrated for decades. At UCLA, for example, Robinson starred in baseball, football, basketball, track, tennis, golf, and swimming.

 

2) Fifty years ago, on April 18, 1946, Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's color barrier with a characteristic bang, homering and scoring four runs in his historic first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers' top farm team. This anniversary will no doubt unleash a wave of media meditations, since it combines the two national pastimes of the American male intellectual: denouncing racism and waxing nostalgic over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Spike Lee is preparing The Jackie Robinson Saga, and I'm sure Stephen Jay Gould will favor us with his thoughts.

 

By Rosa Parks:

 

 

1) When she refused to give up her seat because it was a white passenger seat on a city bus, this is an event that is generally seen as the beginning of a decade-long battle against segregation which mobilized millions and won the support of workers all over the world.