Sports profile

Duration: 28

Year Published: 1982

Format: 16mm

Description: Artie Wilson began his career as a member of the Birmingham (Alabama) Black Barons team. He tours his old Birmingham neighborhood to visit the playing field and to reminisce with his cousin. Re-enactments of scenes from the athletes' childhoods and careers throughout the program along with photographs from their private collections. Alice Coachman, a high jumper and sprinter, trained for eight years before competing at the 1948 Olympics. In winning the gold Medal for the high jump, she became the first black woman to win a medal after the war.

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