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Old 11-15-2023, 03:30 PM
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If you are talking black sports groundbreakers, don't forget The Brown Bomber. Heavyweight champ 1937-1949:



Or The Galveston Giant, whose title reign (1909-15) led to the de facto color barrier that Louis broke:



Wendell Scott integrated NASCAR

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