Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta. THE UNITED STATES V. JACKIE ROBINSON

Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta.
THE UNITED STATES V. JACKIE ROBINSON
New York : Balzer + Bray, 2018
IL K-3, RL 3.5
ISBN 978-0-06-228784-7

Have you heard of Jackie Robinson? He was a baseball player and his uniform number hangs in every major league ball park.  But let's back up a bit.  When he was growing up, he was not allowed to do the things he wanted to do simply because he was black. The United States was segregated and blacks were not treated very well.  At school, he excelled in all sports. He even achieved his dream of going to UCLA. But when the United States entered World War II,  Jackie enlisted in the army. And he found that even the army was segregated. When Jackie sat near the front of one of the buses, all his accomplishments didn't matter. He was arrested and court martialed.  A court martial is a military trial and Jackie faced going to jail because he sat on a bus.