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Black golfer William Wright was born in 1936, the same year in which track star Jesse Owens destroyed the ethnic prejudices of Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games. Hitler viewed a person of color, and Afro-Americans in particular, as inferior, "black auxiliaries" shipped to the Olympics (U.S. Today newspaper; Sports Section, page 5C; entitled "Owens to be honored at worlds in Berlin").
Although Owens died in 1980, he is still revered as the 1936 Olympics' best athlete and one of the greatest international track stars ever.
Owens and Wright Broke Barriers
Both Wright and Owens deserve credit for paving the way for future members of their race in breaking down racial barriers in their sports, as did the, perhaps, most famous barrier buster of all, baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson.
While track and field, and other Olympic sports, and baseball moved forward in leaps and stoen bases to alter extreme athletic bias, golf remained on hold, unwelcoming, for generations of colored athletes.
Until Tiger Woods.
After capturing three U.S. Amateur golf titles beginning in 1994, Woods stormed into the professional ranks with a wickedly long drive, a wide-open smile, and a sporting intensity that continue to overwhelm his playing adversaries.
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