Posted on 07 February 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ware_(cowboy) John Ware (c. 1845 – 12 September 1905) was an African-American and later Black Canadian cowboy, best remembered for his ability to ride and train horses and for bringing the first cattle to southern Alberta in 1882, helping to create that province's important ranching industry. Ware was born into Slavery in South Carolina. After the ...
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Posted on 24 January 2012.
If , like me, you keep an eye on the British media and the way that it reports race, then you will not have let events of December 2011 go unnoticed. Seasoned observers of the media will recognise that headlines seem to be on a perpetual carousel, every now and again base reuse its ugly head. ...
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Posted on 13 December 2011.
Giles Heron became the first Afro-Caribbean player to play first team football for Celtic. Heron scored on his debut, a 2-1 win against Morton during the 1951-52 season and was quickly bestowed the nicknames "Black Flash" and "Black Arrow". Giles Heron became the first Afro-Caribbean player to play first team football for Celtic. Heron scored on his debut, ...
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Posted on 13 December 2011.
Doug & Roy Brown's father, Eugene and his brother John came to England from the Ghana, West Africa, they were students. They decided to join the British Army when WW1 boke out. Â John was killed and Eugene badly injured but after the war he got married and had two sons. Â Eugene later died of his ...
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Posted on 21 October 2011.
Open the Door for Black Coaches Submitted Article by Carla Palmer There are 92 professional football clubs in the UK and about 25% of the players are black. Despite the fact that the number of black players has continued to rise there are only two black managers. This situation is contributed to by a lack of recognition ...
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Posted on 12 September 2011.
Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome, OC (September 30, 1940 – December 7, 1982) was a Canadian track and field runner. He was the Grandson of John Howard, a Railway Porter who represented Canada in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he moved to North Vancouver at age 12. In 1970 he was made an ...
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Posted on 05 August 2011.
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was a professional Tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam Titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States. Ashe, an African American, is also remembered for his efforts to further Social Causes. Tired of ...
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Posted on 24 September 2010.
John Conteh was born in Liverpool in 1951, to an Irish mother and Sierra Leonean father. He was raised in a rough neighbourhood, and his father encouraged him to box at the Kirkby Athletic Club when he was 10 to keep him from joining the local gangs. John excelled in boxing, ...
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Posted on 21 September 2010.
Tommy Martin was born in Reading in 1916. In 1917, the family moved to Deptford. At 14 he ran away from home and joined a fairground, working in a Boxing Booth. In the late 1920s / early 30s there was always a token black boxer in a troupe, which helped draw crowds along with the slogan ...
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Posted on 13 September 2010.
Len Johnson was a Black British Boxer from Manchester rising through the fairground Boxing Booths. Johnson had an Illustrious career. He started his professional career in 1921although he had fought in boxing booths before turning professional. He used the boxing booths for practise, and in particular the booths of Bill Moore. Moore was a very respected boxing ...
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Posted on 01 September 2010.
Ellery Hanley was one of Britain's Greatest Rugby Players. On November 26th 1978 Ellery Hanley made his debut in which 'Northern' won 30-18. Over the following 6 years with Bradford, Hanley made 126 appearances scoring phenomenal 89 tries. Undoubtedly his greatest season for the club came in 1984/85 when he scored 55 tries in only 37 appearances, a ...
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Posted on 23 August 2010.
Jeremy Guscott was one of Britains finest Rugby players in the 1990's. He Made his international debut in 1989 against Romania. A few weeks later he went with the Loins to Australia. He appeared in the last test for scored a famous match winning try. Jerry went on to win 3 Grand Slams with England ...
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Posted on 23 August 2010.
Denise Lewis is a Black British Athlete, a superb all-round talent. Denise progressed to the highest world-class at the heptathlon, her highest accolade was the Olympic gold medal she won in Sydney. She achieved a best of 5277 points in her first year at the event in 1989. She was Britain's woman athlete of the year ...
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Posted on 13 July 2010.
Lennox Lewis was Britains last Heavyweight Champion boxer. Despite a reputedly high, undisclosed personal wealth, Lennox Lewis remains one of the most likeable sporting personalities of this century. Lennox Claudius Lewis was born in Stratford, London on 2 September 1965. His names could not be more aptly chosen as Lennox is Gaelic and means 'chieftain' ...
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Posted on 08 July 2010.
James Peters was the first Black man to play Rugby Football for England. Born in Salford slums of Manchester He moved to London where he began to play Rugby. Later he moved to Bristol and then Plymouth where he worked as a Docker and quickly got into the local team. Before long ...
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Posted on 08 July 2010.
Colin Jackson was one of Britain's greatest ever athletes who retired after a remarkable seventeen years at the top. Although as a boy, Colin Jackson had an all-round talent for sport, playing football and cricket for the county and rugby and basketball for his school. Athletics came most naturally to him, his favoured event being the ...
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Posted on 07 July 2010.
? Linford Christie's title collection includes an Olympic, a World Championship, three European, three Commonwealth, ten European Cup and four World Cup medals. Linford was the first man to retain the World Cup 100m title and in 1997 won a record 7th European Cup title. From 1995 to 1997 he was the inspirational captain of the men's ...
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Posted on 28 June 2010.
Stan Collymore is remembered as being one of Footballs bad boys. He has now retired from professional football. He was an extremely successful Striker. Born January 22, 1971 in Stone in Staffordshire. He joined Walsall in 1989 but the club later canceled his Y.T.S contract. In July 1989 Wolves agreed to complete his trainee term but despite ...
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Posted on 25 June 2010.
DALEY THOMPSON British decathlete who became only the second competitor in history to win the decathlon at two Olympic Games, capturing gold medals in 1980 and 1984. The son of a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother, Thompson made his debut in the decathlon at the age of 16, winning a competition ...
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Posted on 25 May 2010.
Ian Wright was one of the best known footballers in the British game, he started off as a low paid plasterer and ended up being one of the most recognised footballers of our time. He was recognised as an extremely talented young striker which his managers soon noticed. He was getting paid very little and was ...
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Posted on 16 May 2010.
John Barnes was an exciting Black footballer playing for Liverpool in the 1980's and 90's. Three years after his spectacular solo goal for England against Brazil at Rio's Maracana Stadium the exciting Jamaican-born winger was signed from Watford for 900,000 pounds by Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish in 1987 as part of his team reshaping following the ...
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Posted on 28 February 2010.
Cyrille Regis, Is a famous black British footballer, he was one of the earliest black players in the modern leagues. The striker, whose trademark was scoring highly spectacular goals, began his playing career at West Brom with star players like Laurie Cunningham, Brendon Batson, Derek Statham, Len Cantello and Tony 'Bomber' Brown. Regis broke into the ...
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Posted on 18 February 2010.
Clyde Best was one of the first black footballers to succeed in the English Football League and paved the way for a whole generation to make their way into the professional game. Clyde Best made 186 appearances for West Ham United in a six year spell at Upton Park and bagged a respectable 47 goals. ...
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Posted on 31 January 2010.
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 October 24, 1972) was the first African American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to openly play in the major leagues since the 1880s, ...
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Posted on 07 January 2010.
Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE MBE (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the ...
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