ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Marianna Wright is a Junior Olympic National Champion track athlete at Monroe High School in Albany. She learned about Alice Coachman before she began competing, but her story ...

Becoming a pioneer for Black American women in track and field wasn’t initially on the radar for Alice Coachman, but that’s exactly what happened in 1948 when Coachman became the first Black woman ...

MACON, Ga. (WALB) - Alice Coachman, the first Black Olympian and Albany native, was honored in Macon on Wednesday. Coachman was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement Hall of Fame at Wesleyan ...

March is all about celebrating womanhood, and throughout the month we'll be honoring influential women in history whose inspirational stories helped pave the way for female empowerment and progress.

Alice Coachman, the Olympic legend who shattered ceilings and the status quo when she became the first black woman to win a gold medal at the games, earning the medal for her 5-foot-6-1/8-inch high ...

During an era of widespread oppression toward women and African-Americans in sports—and, broadly, all sectors of life—Alice Coachman was forced to practice using makeshift equipment and train shoeless ...

Alice Coachman clearing the bar at a track meeting in Iowa in 1948 Credit: Photo: AP Alice Coachman, the American athlete who has died aged 90, was the first black woman from any nation to win an ...

(Original Caption) Alice Coachman of the Tuskegee Institute Club is seen as she wins the high jump event at the National Women’s Track and Field meet. Bettmann Archive Becoming a pioneer for Black ...