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 ...

Alice Coachman, whose 1948 Olympic high jump title made her the first black woman to win an Olympic medal, opening a door to far more widely known champions such as Wilma Rudolph and Jackie-Joyner ...

Alice Coachman, the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in 1948, died Monday in Albany Georgia. She was 90. According to The New York Times, Coachman’s daughter says that she had been treated at ...

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 ...