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9 illustrations across 2 categories
On September 2, 1960, in Rome's Stadio Olimpico, a young woman from Clarksville, Tennessee crouched in the starting blocks of the 100-meter final. Wilma Rudolph...
In the early 1950s, Blanche Rudolph drove ninety miles round trip each week from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Medical College in Nashville — one of...
In 1940, Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely in Clarksville, Tennessee — the twentieth of twenty-two children. By age four, polio had paralyzed her left leg....
On September 10, 1960, sixty-nine marathon runners lined up in Rome for the Olympic final. Among them stood Abebe Bikila, a twenty-eight-year-old corporal in Emperor...