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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.
Andre Cason, retired track and field athlete; Jearl Miles Clark, retired track and field athlete; Kerron Clement, professional track and field athlete; Alice Coachman, former track and field athlete; Wayne Collett, former track and field athlete; Christian Coleman, professional track and field athlete; Mike Conley Sr., retired track and field ...
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 ...
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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]
Pages in category "African-American track and field athletes" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 498 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
In 1949, she became the first Black woman, and the second Black athlete (after Reginald Weir), to play in the USTA's National Indoor Championships, where she reached the quarter-finals. [26] Later that year she entered Florida A&M University (FAMU) on a full athletic scholarship [ 27 ] and was a member of the Beta Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa ...