Provides information on African-American women who have participated in Olympic track and field events from 1932 to 1988.

After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excell

Portraits of Black American female athletes and their stories at the Olympic Games.

The ancient Greeks excluded women from the Olympics. When the modern games were reinstated in 1896, the ban was continued. But in the next Olympiad in 1900, wom

Here is a story of Alice Coachman, the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. When Alice Coachman was a girl, most White people wouldn't eve