Cullen Jones- Mens 4 x 100 relay team, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics was the second african-american to win a gold medal in swimming. The first was Anthony Ervin, winning the 50-meter freestyle in a tie with Gary Hall Jr. in the Athens games in 2000.
The Phillies first African American player was infielder John Kennedy whose first game with the team was April 22, 1957. I have no idea when he was signed. Kennedy's MLB career lasted 5 games. He had previous played in the Negro Leagues with the Birmingham Black Barons and Kansas City Monarchs.
U.S. Navy Ensign2 Fred "Tiz" Morrison - Navy SEAL UDT Team One (1948) & UDT Team 12 (Bronze Star Korean War).
I could not find the first African American man to actually run track But I did find the first African American woman to make the USA Olympic team. Their names are Louise Stokes and Tydia Pickett. Stokes finished third in the 100 meter dash at the US Olympic trials in 1932 and was named to the squad as a member of the 4x100 meter relay team. According to what I read, she was replaced at the games and did not actually compete. I couldn't find any information about Tydia Pickett other than she and Louise Stokes made the 1932 US Olympic Team. The first African American woman to win a medal at the Olympics was Audrey Patterson who won bronze in the 200 meter dash at the 1948 Games in London. Alice Coachman was the first African American woman to win gold when she won the high jump event at the 1948 Games.
This question if i may call it a question is misleading ...Black is not an ethnicity ...By definition in order to be considered "Black" a person has to have as little as 10% of African blood in them an im sure there are many owners with that number of African blood in them ...
Click on the 'African American Firsts in MLB' to find out who each team's first African American player was and other facts.
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This is technically an impossible question. The African American Ashers were a team that won place as first African team in England.
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