Jackie Robinson Turning Points

Turning points are often crucial events in a person’s life. In the excerpts from Jackie Robinson’s biography, ”I Never Had It Made,” Rebecca Maksel’s auto-biography,“The Father of Chinese Aviation,” and Melba Beals’, “Warriors Don’t Cry,” each person faced important turning points that changed their lives and their countries. One broke the color line in baseball and changed the United States, another changed aviation and industrialized China, and the last made it so schools were not labeled by race in the U.S.A.

Jackie Robinson changed all sports for the better by breaking the color line in baseball. He inspired many individuals to push his cause. And his cause, was giving equal rights to all races. He faced discrimination from his