Here are seven Black female track stars whose legacy has broken down barriers and forever changed the sport. Throughout ...

Credit: Running the anchor leg, American Wilma Rudolph crosses the finish line to win the women's 400-meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The victory gave Rudolph her third gold medal of ...

The Long Beach Poly High graduate is the first woman to be honored in the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s sports ...

Clarksville NowClarksville Parks and Recreation hosted the first-ever Nerf Wars at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center on March 8, 2025. (Wesley Irvin) CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Clarksville ...

Clarksville NowOlympic sprint star Wilma Rudolph tries unsuccessfully to be served at a restaurant in her hometown of Clarksville, Tenn., along with 300 others, on May 30, 1963. With her are ...

Edwards invoked Eroseanna "Rose" Robinson, a high jumper who, incensed by Jim Crow, refused to stand for the national anthem ...

Absolute History found that the images that were painted of her on temple and tomb walls always included ... including Gone With the Wind‘s Vivien Leigh and Samson and Delilah‘s Hedy Lamarr. When ...

Wilma Rudolph remained active in track and field from 1956-1962. Would you believe she had a polio diagnosis in her youth? That didn’t deter her from accomplishing great achievements, however. Rudolph ...

Wilma Rudolph Sprinter Wilma Rudolph was the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics. She overcame the loss of strength in her left leg and foot, caused by polio at 5 ...

The subjects looked at different images while receiving a series of electric shocks – some more painful than others – on the back of their left hand. The first scene depicted a lake surrounded by ...