Wilma Rudolph
Almost as fast as a Speeding Bullet This report is on Wilma Glodean Rudolph. Wilma was born June 23,1940 in Clarksville, Tennessee. William's education is: her mother tutored she until she started school when she was seven. She eventually graduated from the school, went to Tennessee State University and graduated with "flying colors". When Wilma was born she weighed only 4.5 pounds, and was the twentieth of twenty-two children! Since than she was nursed by her mother until she was seven. She was sick all the time. She had measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox, and double pneumonia. She had to be taken to the doctor because her left leg was getting very weak, she soon found out she had polio in her left leg. They thought she would never walk again. But she and her mother would never give up hope that easily. The only place Wilma could go to get treated was at Meharry Hospital, the black medical college of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. It was fifty miles away but her mother took her twice a week for two years until she could walk with the help of a metal brace on her leg Finally at the age of twelve a miracle happened, she walk without a metal brace, without a crutch, without any help at all. In junior high school
State Department as a Goodwill Ambassador at the Games of Friendship in Dakar, Senegal. Because of her celebrity she caused gender barriers to be broken. She was struck with an illness that, unfortunately, we can't do very much about. State Department as a Goodwill Ambassador at the Games of Friendship in Dakar, Senegal. She had the first party recorded in Clarksville history where blacks and whites gathered for the same event. He finally started she her sophomore year. The Millrose Games There were other honors as well. Because of her celebrity she caused gender barriers to be broken. In 1997, Governor Don Sunquist proclaimed June 23 as Wilma Rudolph Day in Tennessee. She returned to her studies and received a degree in education when she graduated in 1963. Sulivan Award for good sportsmanship 1961 European Sportswriters' Sportsman of the year Christopher Columbus Award for Most Outstanding t International Sports Personality 1960 The Penn Relays 1961 New York Athlete Club Track Meet.
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