Black Champions: Interview with Wilma Rudolph

An Olympic runner reflects on segregation and her first experiences with integrated sports events.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on April 11, 1985

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In this interview excerpt conducted for a documentary on "Black Champions," runner Wilma Rudolph discusses playing basketball in high school and attending Tennessee State University. The full interview, in which she also discusses overcoming polio as a child, and competing in the olympics in 1956 and 1960, is available through the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.