He was 92. Virgil became the first nonwhite Tigers player when he joined the team in 1958 via trade, 11 years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. At the time, Virgil was ...

Copeland, the first Black female principal at American Ballet Theater, has announced she’s retiring. She made history, and ...

We didn't see color. We didn't see nationality ... made him Frank Broyles' choice to break that barrier, though it came after Darrell Brown was the first black walk-on football player at Arkansas ...

They witnessed sports history—and civil rights history, too—as Jackie Robinson took to Ebbets Field to become the first black player to play for an MLB team in the 20th century. We correctly ...

GRAVES BECAME THE FIRST BLACK COACH IN DES MOINES SCHOOLS. BEFORE THAT, AT A TIME WHEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS WERE THE NORM. THIS COACH BROKE THE COLOR BARRIER. I HAPPENED TO SEE AN AD IN THE ...

Ozzie Virgil Sr., who broke the color barrier with the Detroit Tigers in 1958, has died. He was 92. The Tigers announced his death Sunday afternoon, before the final game of the regular season at ...

“I look back and there’s a lot of people of color now that have followed me ... In the 1960s, Graves was hired as the first Black coach in Des Moines Schools. Before that, in 1958, six ...