The Negro Baseball League
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Historic Baseball League
Wendell Scott
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First Black NASCAR Driver
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Olympic Gold Medalist & Style Icon
Althea Gibson
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First Black American to play at Wimbledon
Jackie Robinson
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First African American to Play in the Modern Major Baseball League
Lisa Leslie
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Former WNBA Player & Olympic Gold Medalist
John Carlos & Tommie Smith
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Olympic Medalists & Athlete Activists
Muhammad Ali
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American champion boxer, philanthropist, and activist