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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 ...
Latunde Odeku, first Nigerian neurosurgeon trained in the United States; pioneer of neurosurgery in Africa Chidi Chike Achebe , physician executive and son of Chinua Achebe Bankole Johnson , psychiatrist ; discoverer of topiramate, a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) facilitator and glutamate antagonist, as an effective treatment for alcoholism.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
Pages in category "American sportspeople of Nigerian descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 204 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Alliance of Nigerian Organizations in Georgia is an organization that tries to satisfy the interests of the community, and represents all Nigeria nonprofit associations in the state (such as Nigerian Women Association of Georgia – NWAG-[65]), in tribal issues, ethnic, educational, social, political and economic.
Of the 32 starting kickers in the NFL in 2013, only one was black. In 2013, there were two African American punters, Reggie Hodges for the Cleveland Browns and Marquette King for the Denver Broncos. [1] In October 2018, George Taliaferro, the first African American selected by the process of the NFL draft, died at the age of 91. [52]
Louise Vivian Fulton (c. 1917 – May 7, 1988) was an American professional ten-pin bowler.A bowling pioneer, she was the first African American to win a professional tournament and was one of the first African Americans to compete in the women's professional bowling tour.
Lola Falana was born in Camden, New Jersey.She was the third of six children [2] born to Bennett, a welder, [2] and Cleo Falana, a seamstress (1921–2010). [9] Falana's father, an Afro-Cuban, [10] left his homeland of Cuba to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps, later becoming a welder shortly after meeting Falana's mother, who was African-American.