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Established in 1973 by Rachel Robinson to perpetuate the memory of her husband, the Jackie Robinson Foundation administers one of the nation’s premier scholarship and leadership development programs for minority college students.
- About Us
Established in 1973 by Rachel Robinson to perpetuate the...
- Scholarship Program
During the meticulously orchestrated MLC conference each...
- IMPACT
JRF IMPACT is an online community for Black college students...
- Support
Since 1973, the Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) has...
- Remembering NBA Legend and Activist Bill Russell
The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) mourns the loss of NBA...
- Apply
To be eligible for a Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship,...
- About Us
Following Robinson’s death, Rachel Robinson became President of the Jackie Robinson Construction Corporation and renamed the company the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation. The company, responsible for building 1,600 units, specialized in building low-to-moderate income housing.
- Early Life
- Growing Up in California
- Becoming Involved in Sports
- College Athletic Career
- Leaving College
- Army Career
- Court-Martial of 1944
- Playing in The Negro Leagues
- Meeting with Branch Rickey
- Playing For The Montreal Royals
Jackie Robinson was the fifth child born to parents Jerry Robinson and Mallie McGriff Robinson in Cairo, Georgia. His great grandparents had worked as enslaved people on the same property that Jackie's parents, both sharecroppers, farmed. In 1920, Jerry left the family and never returned. In 1921, Mallie received word that Jerry had died, but never...
Mallie and her children moved into an apartment in Pasadena, California with her brother Samuel Wade, his wife Cora, and their family. She found work cleaning houses and eventually earned enough money to buy a house in a mostly-White neighborhood at 121 Pepper Street, but the family was still relatively poor in the abundantly wealthy city they now ...
Robinson's siblings helped instill in him a fierce sense of competition and appreciation for sports. Brother Frank encouraged him by attending all of his sporting events. Willa Mae, also a talented athlete, excelled in the few sports that were available to women in the 1930s. Mack, the third eldest, was an inspiration to young Robinson. A world-cla...
Upon graduation from high school in 1937, Robinson was sorely disappointed that he hadn't received a college scholarship despite his track record of athletic success. But determined to pursue a college degree anyway, he enrolled at Pasadena Junior College where he distinguished himself as a star quarterback, high scorer in basketball, and record-br...
Robinson was a good student in addition to being a formidable athlete, but he was not convinced that earning a college degree would make him successful. He worried that despite getting a college education, he would have few opportunities to advance himself in any profession since he was Black. Jackie also had the welfare of his family on his mind, ...
In 1942, Robinson was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Fort Riley in Kansas. Although the Army enforced barriers to Black enlistment during this time, Black Americans were part of a universal draft started in 1917 that did not contain provisions for race or ethnicity. Black Americans comprised a larger percentage of drafted young men in propo...
Robinson was later transferred to Fort Hood, Texas, where he continued to advocate for civil rights. Riding on an Army bus one evening with a female friend, he was ordered to go to the back of the bus by the bus driver, who mistakenly believed the woman to be White (she was Black, but her lighter skin made him think her White) and assumed she did n...
In 1945, Robinson was hired as a shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs, a baseball team in the Negro Leagues. In major league professional baseball, there was an unwritten rule that Black players were not allowed to join. This rule, referred to as "the gentlemen's agreement," was established by MLB team owners to keep Black players from making it ...
Dodgers president Branch Rickey, determined to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, was looking for the ideal candidate to prove Black players had a place in the majors. This has often been referred to as "Baseball's Great Experiment." Rickey saw Robinson as that man, as Robinson was not only a talented athlete but also educated and st...
Like most new players, Robinson started out on a minor league team and became the first Black player in the minors. In October 1945, he signed with the Dodgers' top farm team, the Montreal Royals. Before the start of spring training, Robinson and Rachel Isum were married in February 1946 and headed to Florida for training camp two weeks after their...
11 de may. de 2015 · In 1970, with three business partners, he launched the Jackie Robinson Construction Corporation, which focused on low- to moderate-income housing developments, such as the Whitney Young Manor in ...
The next seven years, between 1978 and 1985, marked an important era of exploration and growth for the Foundation. Jerry Lewis was appointed JRF’s first President, and JRF opened its first office on Court Street in Brooklyn sharing space with the Jackie Robinson Housing Development Corporation.
Following the death of her husband in 1972, Mrs. Robinson incorporated the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation, which was founded to build and manage housing for people of moderate and low incomes.
