Alice Coachman - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:30:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg Alice Coachman - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 Alice Coachman: The First Black Female Olympic Gold Medalist https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2017/02/16/alice-coachman-the-first-black-female-olympic-gold-medalist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alice-coachman-the-first-black-female-olympic-gold-medalist Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:30:34 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=9029 By Ayanna Alexander, Contributing Writer Posted 12:30 AM EST, Thurs., Feb. 16, 2017 Track star Alice Coachman made history as the first Black woman to win an Olympic Gold medalist at the 1948 London Games. Setting the high jump record at roughly 5-foot-6 and 1/8 inches, Coachman claimed the victory. Though she broke many records in […]

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