• Alice Marie Coachman Davis (November 9, 1923 – July 14, 2014) was an American athlete. She specialized in high jump and was the first black woman to win...
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  • Albany State University. Retrieved January 17, 2018. "Biography of Alice Coachman". Archived from the original on February 2, 2011. "NFL Players who attended...
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    part in 126 events in 19 sports. By winning the women's high jump, Alice Coachman became the first black woman to clinch an Olympic gold medal. Nine cyclists...
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  • medal, winning bronze in a track and field event. A few days later Alice Coachman became the first woman of colour in the world and the first African-American...
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  • Leila Alice Denmark (née Daughtry; February 1, 1898 – April 1, 2012) was an American pediatrician in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the world's oldest practicing...
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  • Barksdale First African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal: Alice Coachman First African American on an Olympic basketball team and first African-American...
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    lectures to read her works. In the PBS documentary Flannery, the writer Alice McDermott explains the impact lupus had on O'Connor's work, saying, "It...
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    administrative personnel. The following schools have distinctions: Alice Coachman Elementary School: 2009 National Blue Ribbon School, 2009 "No Excuses...
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    heteronormative standards, fought ideas of what a woman should be and inspired Alice Walker in developing her characters for The Color Purple. Bragging about...
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  • Myers Nancy MacKay Diane Foster Patricia Jones 47.8 High jump details Alice Coachman  United States 1.68 m Dorothy Tyler  Great Britain 1.68 m Micheline...
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    Stephens 1938–40: Not held 1941: Jean Lane 1942–44: Not held 1945–46: Alice Coachman 1947: Not held 1948: Juanita Watson 1949–50: Dolores Dwyer 1951: Catherine...
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    Dorothy Odam  Great Britain Elfriede Kaun  Germany 1948 London details Alice Coachman  United States Dorothy Tyler  Great Britain Micheline Ostermeyer  France...
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    Dorothy Odam  Great Britain Elfriede Kaun  Germany 1948 London details Alice Coachman  United States Dorothy Tyler  Great Britain Micheline Ostermeyer  France...
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    Robinson Mabel Walker Jean Walraven Lillian Young Women's field athletes Alice Coachman Dorothy Dodson Frances Kaszubski Theresa Manuel Bernice Robinson Emma...
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    the first time. The women competed in the K-1 500 metres discipline. Alice Coachman won a gold medal in the women's high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics...
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    movement and her authority in Congress; but others applauded it, including Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party and Representative Fiorello La Guardia...
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  • indoor championship four times in 1941, 1945, 1946 and 1948. Tuskegee's Alice Coachman was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in...
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    Stephens 1938–40: Not held 1941: Jean Lane 1942–44: Not held 1945–46: Alice Coachman 1947: Not held 1948: Juanita Watson 1949–50: Dolores Dwyer 1951: Catherine...
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    Paulson  Norway George Stanich  United States Women's high jump details Alice Coachman  United States Dorothy Odam-Tyler  Great Britain Micheline Ostermeyer...
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  • Stephens 1938–40: Not held 1941: Jean Lane 1942–44: Not held 1945–46: Alice Coachman 1947: Not held 1948: Juanita Watson 1949–50: Dolores Dwyer 1951: Catherine...
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