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First African American Olympic Medalist
GEORGE POAGE
In the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Poage became the first black athlete to participate in the Olympics, and the first to medal. He won bronze in the 440 meter hurdles. -
Pollard & Marshall Play in NFL!
Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first two black players to play in the NFL in 1920, Pollard with the Akron Pros and Marshall with the Rock Island Independents. A year later, Pollard became co-head coach of the Pros, the first black coach in league history. -
NBL Formed
The NBL contained black, as well as, white players when it was formemd in 1942. WWII was in progress, and the demand for (white) soldiers in ther army took the NBL's supply of players. During the 1948-1949 Season, a black team played against a white team in the same league! -
Jackie Robinson becomes first African American in the Major leagues
Jackie RobinsonJackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball, at age 28, when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. -
Earl Lloyd Becomes 1st African American to play in NBA
After the formation of the NBL to the NBA in 1946, Earl Lloyd became the first African-American to play in the NBA! While comparing his experience with Jackie Robinson's in baseball, he was quoted as saying "“In basketball, folks were used to seeing integrated college teams. There was a different mentality." -
Brown v Board of Education, oveturns "Separate but Equal"
For many years, African American children could not go to school with the white children, in the United States. The previous ruling in Plessy v Ferguson, stated that as long as the educational institutions received equal protection under the law, then the students could go to school in separate facilites. However, Brown vs the BOE of Topeka, Kansas found the facilities to be unequal, and overturned the decision. Now, every child could go to schools and receive the same educational privelages. -
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Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement marked a decade for change for African Americans, and many other races, that weren't black, in the United States. It was a dark time, but the changes that were made, gave voting rights, overturned a Jim Crow Society, and made life in American more equal for all races! -
Olympics Black Power Salute
Black Power Salute
In an effort to make a silent statement on the hypocrisy that was going on in the United States, Tommie Smith & John Carlos, performed the black power salute after becoming Olympic Medalists in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. Their actions caused them to be stripped of their medals, have to be returned home, and received lots of backlash upon their return. However, the statement they wanted to make was heard! -
Arthur Ashe Wins Wimbledon
Ashe became the first black man to win a grand slam event, winning the U.S. Open in 1968. In 1975, he became the first black man to win Wimbledon. -
Hawkins & Mulkey find that socioconomics effects School Aged Sports
For minority families & people in disadvantaged communities, opportunity for quality youth sport activity are less available. The Phys ed programs in these schools are typically underfunded & can’t provide comprehensive programs. Mostly problematic for minority girls, who are most at risk for phys inactivity & obesity (siedentop, 151-152). These issues are most times seen more so in the cities, than suburbs, less among whites, than nonwhites, more available to the wealthy, than the poor.
