Sam Lacy
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Samuel Harold Lacy was an African-American and Native American sportswriter, reporter, columnist, editor, and television/radio commentator who worked in the sports journalism field for parts of nine d
Lacy at his 99th birthday party
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh
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Wilmeth Sidat-Singh was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer with the Tuskegee Airmen, and an American basketball and football player who was subject to segregation in college and professional sports in the
Sam Lacy
…400,000 black people out of jobs." In October 1937, Lacy broke his first major story when he reported the true racial origins of multi-sport athlete Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. Syracuse University had claimed Sidat-Singh was of Hindu and Indian heritage, when in truth his widowed mother had remarried, to an Indian doctor…
Poster from Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information News Bureau, 1943