She laced up her boots and sped on to the skating rink. A seemingly innocuous act, except in 1952 during a time of racial segregation in the US, this young Black woman departed the rink with a broken arm, her actions having infuriated White men intent on her exclusion.
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Monday, 26 April 2021
Long before Colin Kaepernick knelt, a Black female athlete defied the US national anthem, but she's been largely forgotten
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