Quincy Wilson – 4×400 meter relay Quincy Wilson, the Virginia native and Maryland resident, became the youngest male American track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold medal at the Paris ...

She was the first African-American woman to compete in the 800m and remains ... Among her many honors and awards, Manning-Mims was named North American Athlete of the Year in 1967 and 1969 and was ...

Kinney Holbrook joined the Hawkeye football team in 1895, becoming the first African-American athlete in the history of the University of Iowa and the first documented black college athlete in the ...

Yet only a mile away, a stadium is built to honor an African-American baseball player named Pop Lloyd. Dubbed the "Black Wagner", John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was one of the greatest athletes of his time.

which will look a lot different than the one he first met 50 years ago when he became the first African-American scholarship athlete in Bama history. “I met him when I came to the LSU (football ...