When she completed her first high jump at the 1948 Olympic Games, Alice Coachman became the first black woman to win an ... parades around the country, the white mayor of her hometown still ...

They included Alice Coachman, who attended Tuskegee and in ... These early marathoners were mostly white; Black women who showed running talent were still funneled into sprints.

Sammy Lee, Alice Coachman, Mal Whitfield and Ray ... a gold medal at the first post-World War II Olympics. Coachman was also the first black woman to endorse an international product, Coca-Cola.