Read this excerpt from i never had it made. the team went to south bend, indiana, for a game. the hotel management registered the coach and team but refused to assign a room to a black player named charley thomas. in those days college ball had a few black players. mr. rickey took the manager aside and said he would move the entire team to another hotel unless the black athlete was accepted. the threat was a bluff because he knew the other hotels also would have refused accommodations to a black man. while the hotel manager was thinking about the threat, mr. rickey came up with a compromise. he suggested a cot be put in his own room, which he would share with the unwanted guest. the hotel manager wasn't happy about the idea, but he gave in. which detail supports the idea that branch rickey is personally involved in his players’ struggle for acceptance? "the hotel management registered the coach and team but refused to assign a room to a black player named charley thomas." "in those days college ball had a few black players." "he suggested a cot be put in his own room, which he would share with the unwanted guest." "the hotel manager wasn't happy about the idea, but he gave in."

The answer is:

"He suggested a cot be put in his own room, which he would share with the unwanted guest."

In the excerpt from Jackie Robinson's autobiography, "I Never Had it Made," the author suggests Branch Rickey got involved so that his black player, Charley Thomas, could be registered at the hotel with the rest of the team. Thus, he talked to the hotel manager and agreed to share his own room with him.

The detail that supports the idea that Branch Rickey is personally involved in his players' struggle for acceptance is "He suggested a cot be put in his own room, which he would share with the unwanted guest."

Explanation:

Branch Rickey, who had been a baseball player himself, was a sports executive who fought the status quo by employing African-American players at a time of great prejudice in America. I Never Had It Made is an autobiography by Jackie Robinson, who become the first black baseball player in major leagues. Robinson's life was changed by Rickey's respect and seriousness. In the excerpt we are analyzing here, he clearly shows how Rickey makes a point of fighting for his player's acceptance himself. He would not take no for an answer, struggling to find a solution to the refusal of a room based on racist motives. Unlike others, he refuses to see a black person as inferior.

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