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First African-American man to win a Grand Slam tennis event: Arthur Ashe (See also: Althea Gibson, 1956; Serena Williams, 2003) First African American to start at quarterback in the modern era of professional football: Marlin Briscoe (Denver Broncos, AFL) First African-American coach to win NBA Championship: Bill Russell
First African American to win a PGA Tour event: Charlie Sifford (1967 Greater Hartford Open Invitational) First African-American elected mayor of a large U.S. city: Carl B. Stokes (Cleveland, Ohio) First African-American appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States: Thurgood Marshall (See also: 1965)
1879: William Edward White (1860–1937), believed to be the first African American to play in the major leagues, appearing in one game on June 21, 1879. White passed as white. 1884: Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856–1924), first openly African-American player; 1887: Jim Toy (1858–1919), another possible, disputed candidate for first Native ...
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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This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...
The Journal of African American History’s (JAAH) Special Issue on African American participation in sports in the 19th and 20th centuries demonstrates that African Americans have often used sports to challenge the social subjugation of their communities and stigma of the society. [136]
The new league was the first African-American baseball circuit to achieve stability and last more than one season. At first the league operated mainly in midwestern cities, ranging from Kansas City in the west to Pittsburgh in the east; in 1924 it expanded into the south , adding franchises in Birmingham, Alabama , and Memphis, Tennessee .