George Jewett
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George Henry Jewett II was an American athlete who became the first African-American football player at both the University of Michigan and Northwestern University and in the Big Ten Conference. He pl
Jewett cropped from 1890 Michigan team photograph
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George Jewett in 1890 Michigan team photograph
Moses Fleetwood Walker
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Moses Fleetwood Walker, sometimes nicknamed Fleet Walker, was an American professional baseball catcher credited with being the first black man to play major league baseball. A native of Mount Pleasan
George Jewett
…1889, William Henry Lewis and William Tecumseh Sherman Jackson played for Amherst. Eight years before Jewett's debut for the Michigan football team, Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first African American to letter for Michigan, doing so on the baseball team. Jewett went on to practice medicine in the Chicago area. Jewett…
Walker, c. 1884
1882 University of Michigan baseball team (Walker front row, third from right)