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Ann Gregory: First African-American Female Golfer to Compete Nationally

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Meet Ann Gregory, Who Shattered Racist and Sexist Barriers in the Golf World – Atlas Obscura
An unheralded sports pioneer, she was known as “The Queen of Negro Women’s Golf.”

“It was better for me to remember that the flaw was in the racist, not in myself.”

 

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