The driver said “Listen, you, I said get to the back of the bus where the colored people belong.” Jackie then said “Listen to me, buddy; you just drive the bus and I’ll sit where I please. The Army recently issued orders that there is to be no more racial segregation on any Army post. This is an Army bus operating on an Army post.”(Back-Seat Rebel) His motivation was to prove the the white race wrong about blacks and to show his talent in the big leagues. After playing in the negro leagues he caught some people's eyes and Branch Rickey decided to draft him in 1947.“ On April 15, 1947, Robinson broke the decades-old colour bar of Major League Baseball when he appeared on the field for the National League Brooklyn Dodgers.”(Jackie