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The '23 squad included the first African American football player and first African American letterman at UW, halfback Hamilton Greene. And it was the first season that UW ended its season in the ...
That revelation was first published on a website ... He's "one of the now '13' African-American professional football players during the 1920-1946 era," Jubyna wrote on the website for which ...
This story was originally published in 2009. In honor of Black History Month, we're bringing it back. The story of Jackie Robinson’s struggle to integrate Major League Baseball is told in a ...
On the football field, Sidat-Singh played halfback ... Karl Binns, a 6-foot-8 forward, became the first African-American player to receive a basketball scholarship to play at Georgia Tech in ...
James Hurley, the first ... Georgia football team’s roster, will be honored at an award ceremony on Sept. 29. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the Association for the Study of African American ...
Ole Miss football is retiring the number of a ... 74 jersey number of defensive lineman Ben Williams, who was the first African American to play in a varsity game for Ole Miss.
An Athens organization recently honored the first Black football player at the University ... branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).