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Althea Gibson becomes the first African American person to win Wimbleton and the U.S nationals. Not only did she win both but she won them in the same year.
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Althea Gibson wins both Wimbleton and U.S. Nationals for the second consecutive year
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Wilma Rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the Rome Olympics 1960, in these olympics she broke at least 3 records, she became the first African American to win 3 gold medals in one olympic game (won 100m, 200m, and 4x100m)
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Muhammad Ali went to the Rome Olympics at 18 to compete, he won all four fights and won gold
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Wilma Rudolph recieves the Associated Press Althete of the Year for the second year in a row, making her the most athletic woman in the world two years in a row
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Muhammad Ali went professional and won the heavyweight world championship for the first time beating sonny liston
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Althea Gibson is the first black woman to compete in ladies professional golf association in 1964, making her the first african american professional female golf player
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Texas Western University Men’s basketball team has first all black starting lineup in NCAA, beat all white Kentucky and caused the depletion of all white basketball teams
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Bill Russell becomes the first African American head coach in basketball and any other sport, he coached the Boston Celtics in 1966, only player to win 11 championships with 2 being a player-coach
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Charles Sifford made history again when he won the Greater Hartford Open—the first fully sanctioned PGA event ever won by an African American.
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SJSU rally or better treatment of African American students and athletes, started at 135 students but grew to 700 throughout the rally
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Muhammad ali was stripped of title due to refusing to be drafted during the Vietnam War, he claimed that his religion would not allow him to be drafted
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Arthur Ashe wins the US Open, Becomes first African American tennis player to win US Open
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Black power salute, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Olympic games in Mexico City, African American athletes that placed gold and bronze put up first during star spangled banner, this was a act of protest for equal treatment of black athletes
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Marlin Briscoe becomes first African American quarterback in the modern era of professional football for the Denver Broncos, first starting black quarterback. Called the african american pioneer of professional football