Black History Month: Wilma Rudolph

Jersey Is Naked would like to honor Wilma Rudolph. She makes me proud to be an African-American. 

Via HuffPost

Thirteen years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball, America was still aflame with racial discrimination; and so the victorious emergence of track-and-field athlete Wilma Rudolph at the 1960 Rome Olympics drew international headlines.

Emerging from the games with three gold medals — the first American women ever to do so in track and field in a single Olympics — Rudolph also earned the title “the fastest woman in the world,” a distinction that placed her among such revered fellow African-American athletes as Muhammad Ali and Jesse Owens.