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This is a list of notable African American sportspeople. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans . Administrators, executives, and businesspeople
Robinson was a top-notch athlete, winning the Rookie of the Year award in his first season. Thanks to his legacy as a civil rights advocate and athlete, his number 42 was retired across all MLB teams.
First African-American baseball player to be named the Major League Baseball World Series MVP: Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals [45] First African-American to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association: Althea Gibson; First African-American baseball player to be named the captain of a Major League Baseball team: Willie Mays, San Francisco ...
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 ...
The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students."
These Black Olympians are trailblazers.View Entire Post ›
Note: "African Americans" are citizens of the United States of Black African ethnicity or ethnic descent. ... African-American track and field athletes (1 C, 498 P) V.
The N.C. State Board of Education has slammed the door shut on the state’s public high school athletes having access to their name, image and likeness rights.