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William Eldon O'Ree [1] was born on October 15, 1935, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, [2] to Harry, [3] a civil engineer and road maintenance worker, [2] and Rosebud O'Ree. [4] He was the youngest of nine siblings. [5] His grandparents were escapees of slavery in the United States, moving to Canada through the Underground Railroad. Fredericton ...
On Jan. 19, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill awarding O'Ree a Congressional Medal of Honor. A day earlier, the Boston Bruins retired Willie O'Ree's little-known journey to ...
O'Ree joined the Boston Bruins in the late 1950s, becoming the first Black player in the NHL.
When O'Ree first entered the league as the first ice hockey player of African descent, he received no recognition from the league or the media. The media did not publish any articles that the color line in ice hockey had been broken. Some newspapers who reported about the first game O'Ree played confused O'Ree's first name Willie, as Billy. O ...
ESPN has iced a deal for Willie, a documentary film about the remarkable life of the National Hockey League's first black player. ESPN2 will have the TV premiere of the pic about Willie O'Ree on ...
Willie O'Ree (born 1935), the first black player in the National Hockey League; Willie Park Sr. (1833–1903), Scottish golfer; Willie Park Jr. (1864–1925), American golfer and golf course architect, son of the above; Willy Pogany (1882–1955), Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books
Jan. 19—(Editor's note: Willie O'Ree had his number retired last night by the Bruins. O'Ree was in Methuen three years ago signing autographs and our Bill Burt caught up with O'Ree talking about ...
Eric Paul Nesterenko (October 31, 1933 – June 4, 2022) [1] was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1951 until 1956 and for the Chicago Black Hawks from 1956 until 1972.