Front row (L-R): Hall; Elliott; Jones; Davis (Cap't.); Henry; Davage Taylor. Second row (L-R): Butler; Maddox; J. Waters; Wormley; Hobbs; Cromwell; Diggs; Watkins. Standing (L-R): Principal L. S. James; Spry; Jackson; Holland (Mgr.); Hart; Waters;...
First row (L-R): Thomas Hodges; Marion Waller; Leon Taylor; Robert Barclay. Second row (L-R): Kelly Wilson; Charler Brown; Eldrige Waters; Steven Camphor. Third row (L-R): David Pitts; Brent Thompson; William Kiah; George Carnish. Standing: Coach...
Sam Jones, one of the all-time greatest National Basketball Association players and coach Floyd Brown are pictured holding trophies. Sam Jones played at North Carolina Central University from 1951 to 1954 and then served in the United States Army...
Members of the Tigerbelle Track Team of Tennessee A & I State University Display the Medals They Won in a Track Meet Against the U.S.S.R in Moscow in 1958. Pictured are Coach Edward S. Temple, Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Isabelle Daniels...
1960 United States Olympic Team Includes Back: Anna Lois Smith, Wilma Rudolph, Coach Edward S. Temple, Barbara Jones and Ralph Boston. Front: Jo Ann Terry, Shirley Crowder, Lucinda Williams and Martha Hudson.
Members of the 1960 TigerbelleTrack Team of Tennessee A & I State University Pose With Coach Edward S. Temple. Pictured are Mae Faggs, Wilma Rudolph, Lucinda Williams, Margaret Matthews, Isabelle Daniels, and Willye B. White.
Members of the Tigerbelle Relayers of the Tennessee A & I State College Pose Beside a Hurdle in 1956. Pictured are Mae Faggs, Isabelle Daniels, Wilma Rudolph and Lucinda Williams.
Wilma Rudolph, Hailed as the "Lady of Gold" and "La Gazelle Noire," Was the First Woman to Win Three Gold Medals In a Single Olympiad. In 1960, She Won the 100-Meter Dash, the 200-Meter Dash, and the 400-Meter Relay in Rome,...
Lucinda Williams Is Pictured in Her Tennessee A & I State University Track Uniform. She Ran the Third Leg of the 4x100 Meter Relay That Won a Gold Medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics. At the 1958 Pan-American Games in Chicago, Illinois, Williams...
Madeline Manning is the First and Only American Female to Win an Olympic Gold Medal in the 800-Meter Event, Accomplishing This Feast in Mexico City in 1968. Pictured Above is Madeline Manning Mims (Right) and Coach Temple Receiving an Award From...
Tigerbelles Edith McGuire and Wyomia Tyus of Tennessee A & I State University (Now Tennessee State University) Sit Upon a Suitcase, Surrounded by Their Luggage at the Nashville Municipal Airport Prior to Traveling to Toyko, Japan for the 1964...
Ralph Boston, U.S. Olympian in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, and a Member of the Tennessee State A & I University Track Team, Stands With Friends From Tennessee A & I State University, Now Tennessee State University. Boston's Specialty...
Ralph Boston, a 1961 Graduate of Tennessee A & I State University (Now Tennessee State University), Is Pictured in His United States Olympic Track Uniform With His Running Shoes. He Specialized in the Long Jump and Won a Gold Medal at the 1960...
Wyomia Tyus Was the First Olympic Athlete to Successfully Defend Her Sprint Title in a Subsequent Olympiad. At the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Tyus Ran the 100-Meter Dash in 11.2 Seconds in the Preliminary Heats, Tying Wilma Rudolph's World Records, and...
Jean Patton Is Welcomed Home to Tennessee A & I State College With a Parade in Her Honor. She Was Lauded as the "World's Fastest Woman" After Her Performance in the Inaugural Pan-American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1951....
Members of the Tigerbelles Track Team at Tennessee A & I State University, Wilma Rudolph and Lucinda Williams, Train for the 1959 Pan American Games. They Were Also Members of the 1960 United States Olympic Team.