I Don't Have Much
Roy Campanella was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 19,1921.
Growing up in the mean streets of Philadelphia was pretty hard for him and his sister
Doris. Everyday as they walked home from school, they would teased by a group of
white kids, and sometimes even black kids, the kids would call them "Half- Breed". At
that time they did not know what that meant. He then realized he parents were different
races, his mother being the darker skin and his father being the lighter skin. Roy was the
youngest of four children. When he was seven years old him and his family moved to a
neighborhood called Nicetown. There were few black families that lived in Nicetown.
Roy lived two blocks away from his new school, and everyday after school he
would play stickball with the Italian and Polish kids. There in his new town he received
little discrimination, because there were no street gang, and nobody carried guns or
knives, at this time it......
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