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Famous Black athletes span all sports, from football and basketball to tennis and gymnastics. This article focuses on 10 whose excellence made them household names and changed their sports forever.
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
[101] Sports Illustrated for Women named her to its list of the "100 Greatest Female Athletes". [102] In a 1977 historical analysis of women in sports, The New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden wrote, Althea Gibson and Wilma Rudolph are, without question, the most significant athletic forces among Black women in sports history.
First African American professional basketball player: Harry Lew (New England Professional Basketball League) [13] (See also: 1950); First African-American professional American football player: Charles Follis [citation needed] [14]
And it wasn't until 2002, just 20 years ago, that Vonetta Flowers became the first Black athlete from any country to win gold in the Winter Olympics. She was a Team USA bobsledder at the Salt Lake ...
One of only four women inducted into the American Football Association Hall of Fame. [30] [31] Named the 1975 Athlete of the Year by womenSports, the first magazine dedicated exclusively to covering women in sports. [30] Posted five consecutive 1,000-yard seasons rushing. [30] Barbara Patton – Linebacker, Los Angeles Dandelions (1973–1975).
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American track and field athletes. It includes American track and field athletes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.