Help us create more content like this
Already a member? Sign in.
Charles C. Pyler
1928 Bunion Derby: when 5 African Americans proved to Ku Klux Klan that Blacks were suited to long distance running
For the five African Americans out of the 199 runners who were participating in the Bunion Derby of 1928, it was all about the $25,000 prize money. It was a risk they signed up for given the height of racial discrimination at the time. But, when they got to Jim Crow states and radical whites…
