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As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 16.6% of the population of Florida. [4] The African-American presence in the peninsula extends as far back as the early 18th century, when African-American slaves escaped from slavery in Georgia into the swamps of the peninsula.
The world of sports generally is invoked in the frequently cited example of Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American of the modern era to become a Major League Baseball player in 1947, after 60 years of segregated Negro leagues. [3]
1974 – The Women's Sports Foundation was created by Billie Jean King in America. It is "a charitable educational organization dedicated to increasing the participation of girls and women in sports and fitness and creating an educated public that supports gender equity in sport."
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Multi-sport American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias was breaking boundaries in sports in the early 1900s. She was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the ...
1900s in women's sport by country (14 C) 0–9. 1900 in women's sport (5 C) 1901 in women's sport (3 C) 1902 in women's sport (3 C) 1903 in women's sport (3 C)
First African-American women appointed as police officers: Cora I. Parchment at the New York Police Department (NYPD) [127] and Georgia Ann Robinson, by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) [128] First African American to direct a feature film : Oscar Micheaux ( The Homesteader )
On June 18, 1964, black and white protestors entered the strictly whites-only pool in Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida. [26] This effort also included college students on Spring Break, where they joined forces with local Civil Rights activists to protest the segregation in Monson Motor Lodge. [ 25 ]