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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 ...
Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam event (the French Open).
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 .
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.
Nwando Achebe, historian and feminist scholar; professor of history at Michigan State University; Toyin Falola, historian and professor of African Studies; Bamidele A. Ojo, political scientist and professor of Political science and International studies; John Ogbu, anthropologist, "acting white" theorist
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.
Details of the history of black players in professional American football depend on the professional football league considered, which includes the National Football League (NFL); the American Football League (AFL), a rival league from 1960 through 1969 which eventually merged with the NFL; and the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which existed from 1946 to 1949.