Tidye Pickett
American track and field athlete / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tidye Pickett[1] (November 3, 1914 – November 17, 1986)[2] was an American track and field athlete. She represented the United States in the 80-meter hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, becoming the first African-American woman to compete in the Olympic Games. In 2016, the 1936 Olympic journey of the eighteen Black American athletes, including interviews with Pickett's family, was documented in the film Olympic Pride, American Prejudice.[3]
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Full name | Tidye Ann Pickett |
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