Category : Sports

Ernie Davis was a trailblazing athlete who made history as the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy, college football’s most prestigious award. Born...

The 1966 championship game for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament came down to a test between a small southwestern institution, El Paso’s...

Willie O’Ree is a former professional ice hockey player, best known for breaking the color barrier in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was born...

Wendell Oliver Scott was the first African American race car driver to win a race in what would now be considered part of the Sprint...

William DeHart Hubbard was the first African American to win a gold medal at the Olympics as an individual, placing first in the running long...

Automobile racer Rajo Jack DeSoto was born Dewey Gatson on July 28, 1905, in Tyler, Texas. (Previously published biographies have incorrectly listed his racing name...

William ‘Willie the Pro” Thrower was the first African American to play as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). Thrower was born on...

Moses Fleetwood Walker, often called Fleet, was the first African American to play major league baseball in the nineteenth century. Born October 7, 1857, in...

In 1875, Oliver Lewis became the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby, America’s longest continuous sporting event. Lewis was born in 1856 in Fayette...

Before African Americans could race in the Indianapolis 500, there was the Colored Speedway Association and it’s Gold and Glory Sweepstakes. The year was 1926,...