Isu’s Tidye Pickett Was First African American Woman To Compete in Olympics

Tidye Ann Pickett stood only 5-feet-2, and barely weighed 100 pounds. But nine decades ago, she stood tall in American track.Pickett, an Illinois State University student, was the first African-American woman to compete in the Olympics, as she ran in the 80-meter hurdles at the 1936 Games in Berlin. To ...

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