Kinney Holbrook joined the Hawkeye football team in 1895, becoming the first African-American athlete in the history of the University of Iowa and the first documented black college athlete in the ...

Al Abram, the first African American athlete to accept a scholarship at Mizzou in any sport, is not in the Missouri Sports ...

In 1908, when Jack Johnson fought Tommy Burns to become the first African American heavyweight champion ... 1908 Ever since the ancient Olympic Games, athletes have represented their native ...