ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Marianna Wright is a Junior Olympic National Champion track athlete at Monroe High School in Albany. She learned about Alice Coachman before she began competing, but her story ...

Becoming a pioneer for Black American women in track and field wasn’t initially on the radar for Alice Coachman, but that’s exactly what happened in 1948 when Coachman became the first Black woman ...

MACON, Ga. (WALB) - Alice Coachman, the first Black Olympian and Albany native, was honored in Macon on Wednesday. Coachman was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement Hall of Fame at Wesleyan ...

Alice Coachman, whose 1948 Olympic high jump title made her the first black woman to win an Olympic medal, opening a door to far more widely known champions such as Wilma Rudolph and Jackie-Joyner ...

March is all about celebrating womanhood, and throughout the month we'll be honoring influential women in history whose inspirational stories helped pave the way for female empowerment and progress.

(Original Caption) Alice Coachman of the Tuskegee Institute Club is seen as she wins the high jump event at the National Women’s Track and Field meet. Bettmann Archive Becoming a pioneer for Black ...