Contribution:
First African American woman to coach a United States Women's Olympic Track & Field Team at an International Olympics event (1957) As an undergraduate at Tuskegee Institute,she was a member of the 1948 United States Olympic Women's Track and Field team for the 14th Olympics held in London England, a participant in the French International Games in Paris, France; a member of the United States Pan American Olympic Track and Field Team in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1956 she was appointed to the United States Olympic Women\'s Track and Field Committee, and the A. A. U. Women\'s Track and Field Committee.