Occupation – Sports – Coach
Clarence Edwin “Cito” Gaston (1944- )
Clarence Edwin “Cito” Gaston is a baseball manager, coach, and outfielder. He became the first African American baseball manager to...
Emma Reed (1925-2014)
Emma Reed (Wright) was born on May 30, 1925 on the family farm in rural Redwood, Mississippi to parents Sallie...
Sizwe Lawrence Ndlovu (1980- )
Born in 1980 in apartheid-dominated Johannesburg, South Africa, Sizwe Lawrence Ndlovu was a member of a family of seven. His interest in athletics began...
Willie Jeffries (1937- )
Willie Jeffries is a former American football player and coach. Jeffries served as the head football coach at South Carolina...
Tommie Smith (1944- )
Tommie Smith is best known as a world-class sprinter and for protesting (along with John Carlos) U.S. racism and human...
Oscar Charleston (1896-1954)
Oscar Charleston was born October 14, 1896, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up as a batboy for the local Indianapolis ABC’s,...
