One for the Books
In 1942, Jackie was drafted into the U.S. Army right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Jackie was ranked highly after going through bootcamp, and he took his training very seriously. He was even recognized by some of the drill sergeants as the collegiate athlete that set the UCLA long jump record.
Still Having Trouble
Jackie was praised by a fair deal of his superiors, but racism was still an enormous issue in the military at the time. These problems weren’t being addressed because the U.S. Army claimed that they had larger issues at the time (like WWII), but these problems inevitably came to a head one day when Jackie got on an army-owned non-segregated bus…
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