An antidiscrimination lawsuit on her behalf helped lead to one of the first multiracial track teams in the Midwest.
Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's track team, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.
Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers to become the only woman to compete for ...
Every day the ECHO print edition carries tributes and funeral notices for those who have lost a loved one recently and our ...
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