*Edward Joseph Dwight Sr. was born on this date in 1905. He was a Black baseball player and chemist. He graduated from Sumner High School in Kansas City, Kansas. He played second base and centerfield in the Negro League. He played mostly for the Kansas City Monarchs from 1924 to 1937. After retiring from baseball, he worked as a […]
learn more*Edward Dwight Jr. was born on this date in 1933. He is a Black sculptor, author, former test pilot, and astronaut. Edward Joseph Dwight Jr. was born in Kansas City, Kansas area, to Georgia Baker Dwight and Edward Joseph Dwight Sr., a Negro League baseball player. At age 4, Dwight built a toy airplane from orange crates in […]
learn more*Cheryl White was born on this date in 1953. She was a Black horse jockey and trainer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, White grew up around the horse industry. Her mother, Doris, owned horses, and her father, Raymond, was a successful owner and trainer. As a jockey, White won five early races aboard horses owned by […]
learn moreSeimone Augustus is a former college and WNBA basketball player in this segment. She shares nonplaying career options for youth who wish to participate in the game.
learn more*On this date in 1955, the Attucks Tigers basketball team won the Indiana High School state championship. Attucks beat Gary’s Roosevelt High School, becoming the first all-Black school in the nation to win a state title. They included future professional star and National Basketball Association Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson. The Attucks Tigers made it to […]
learn more*Kelvin Sampson was born on this date in 1955. He is an African Native American college basketball coach. Kelvin Dale Sampson was born in the Lumbee Native American community of Deep Branch in Robeson County, North Carolina, where he excelled in the classroom and the athletic arena during his prep days at Pembroke High School in Pembroke, North Carolina. […]
learn more*Pearl Moore was born on this date in 1957. She is a retired Black woman’s professional basketball player. Born in Florence, South Carolina, Moore began playing basketball while attending Wilson High School. She started for all four years and earned the MVP award at the 1975 and 1976 AAU Junior Olympic Games. Moore began her collegiate career […]
learn more*Vida Blue was born on this date in 1949. He was a Black professional baseball player. Early life Vida Rochelle Blue Jr. was born and raised in Mansfield in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He was the oldest of six children born to Vida Blue, Sr, a laborer in a Mansfield iron foundry, and his wife, Sallie. […]
learn more*Jim Hines was born on this date in 1946. He was a Black track and field athlete and professional football player. James Ray Hines was born in Dumas, Arkansas; Hines was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from McClymonds High School in 1964. He was a baseball player in his younger years until track coach […]
learn more*Lloyd McDermott was born on this date in 1939. Also known as Mullenjaiwakka, he was an Aboriginal Australian lawyer and rugby union player. Born in Eidsvold, Queensland, Lloyd Clive McDermott had links to the Mununjali clan and the Wakka Wakka people. Lloyd McDermott’s academic and sporting prowess, the son of a farm laborer, won him a scholarship […]
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