How Black Jockeys Dominated Horseracing Before Jim Crow
Americas earliest black athletes won 15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derbys
2013-02-22
By Sheena McKenzie CNN
The first generation of black U.S. athletes dominated an unlikely sport. The godfathers of Owens, Ali and Williams weren't found on basketball courts or in boxing rings. Instead, they were the jockeys of the race track and their dizzying success -- and dramatic fall -- is one of the most remarkable buried chapters in U.S. sporting history.
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