Summary Of Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, And Ida B. Wells

Why do people act heroically? Throughout our history there was many people who did life changing actions that changed our country. In this essay there would be three heros Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells, that did something that was life changing to our country. Although, Jackie Robinson ,Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells had many different experiences, when the time came, they all acted very heroically. Therefore, Jackie Robinson acted heroically when being the first African-American Major League Baseball player, Jackie Robinson was significant in the increased racial diversity that followed in baseball and in other aspects of American culture. He was hated by many white people and sometime even his own teammates,
Wells acted heroically when she fought that lynching be a crime through her writing due to personal reasons and tried to help her people not to die horribly anymore. Personal tragedy inspired Ida B. Wells to work heroically to bring about justice for her people. (Moreau, 1999) She protested and stood up for what she believed in with her writing. Ida fought injustice against blacks in the best way she knew how—with her pen. The first article she’d ever published had been about her incident with the railroad. Subsequent stories dealt with education and religion. She was now about to tackle the biggest issue of her career (Moreau, 1999) With all that she did and all that happend at the end she showed heroism with taking a step closer to make the world a better place. She needed both for her tireless and fearless work, telling the nation about crimes against black citizens and asking U.S. Courts to punish the perpetrators. Change came slowly. It wasn’t until decades after her death in 1931 that lynchings of black people almost completely stopped. In 1942 a Gallup poll showed that a majority of Americans favored making lynching a federal crime. Ida launched the movement that changed public sentiment and led to the time when the atrocities would end.(Moreau,
They also helped the future African Americans be treated fairly and be treated a little less poorly. However, Robinson did not stand up for his rights or helped people to their freedom but he did help African Americans in the future do what they loved just as he did. He paved the way for many future African-American and minority athletes. His career helped the upcoming Civil Rights Movement by giving Americans a heroic African-American sports figure to rally around (McBirney, 2017) Harriet Tubman did not stop lynching or be the first African American to play Major Leagues but she did help people find their freedom and risked her life doing it. By the end of the decade, she was responsible for freeing about 300 slaves. When the Civil War broke out, she used her knowledge from working the railroad to serve as a spy for the Union (USHistory.org, 2016) Ida B. Wells did not help slaves or be the first African American to play baseball but she did stand up and protest with her writing to stop seeing her people get murdered cold blooded by white people. Personal tragedy inspired Ida B. Wells to work heroically to bring about justice for her people (Moreau,