#Trailblazers #BlackHistory #WomenInLaw
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Joan Tarpley: How Dallas' first Black woman lawyer and judge broke barriers and shaped the city's schools
Now 83, trailblazing Black attorney in Dallas, Joan Tarpley says she never intended to make history, but she did.
"I was just trying to make a life," said Tarpley.
#WomensHockey #Olympics #Trailblazers
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Sarah Nurse once saw her dream on TV. It led to an Olympic gold medal: Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from "Black Aces: Essential Stories from Hockey's Black Trailblazers" by The Athletic's Julian McKenzie, copyright @2026 and reprinted with permission from Triumph Books.
#LGBTQOlympians #OlympicHistory #Trailblazers
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13 LGBTQ+ Olympians who blazed trails and changed history
Every time the Olympics come around, extremely talented and ambitious athletes make history by winning medals and achieving feats in their respective sports that no one has ever done before.
#LGBTQOlympians #OlympicHistory #Trailblazers
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13 LGBTQ+ Olympians who blazed trails and changed history
Every time the Olympics come around, extremely talented and ambitious athletes make history by winning medals and achieving feats in their respective sports that no one has ever done before.
#BlackHistory #Trailblazer #IndianaFootball
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Indiana football's first Black player: From charmed life to tragedy
BLOOMINGTON -- Preston Eagleson's life was as charmed as it could have been for a Black kid growing up in the 1870s and 1880s, decades before the Civil Rights movement, decades before Black students played on white football teams and took classes in the halls of elite universities.
#BlackHistory #Trailblazer #IndianaFootball
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Indiana football's first Black player: From charmed life to tragedy
BLOOMINGTON -- Preston Eagleson's life was as charmed as it could have been for a Black kid growing up in the 1870s and 1880s, decades before the Civil Rights movement, decades before Black students played on white football teams and took classes in the halls of elite universities.
#HorseRacing #Trailblazer #FemaleJockey
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Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
#HorseRacing #Trailblazer #FemaleJockey
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Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
#HorseRacing #WomenInSports #Trailblazers
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Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
#HorseRacing #WomenInSports #Trailblazers
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Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
#HorseRacing #FemaleJockey #Trailblazer
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First female to ride in Kentucky Derby, Diane Crump, dead at 77
WASHINGTON -- Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
#HorseRacing #FemaleJockey #Trailblazer
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First female to ride in Kentucky Derby, Diane Crump, dead at 77
WASHINGTON -- Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
#HorseRacing #WomenInSports #Trailblazer
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Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77 - The Boston Globe
Crump went on to win 228 races before riding her last race in 1998, a month shy of her 50th birthday and nearly 30 years after her trailblazing ride at Hialeah Park in Florida on Feb.
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Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77
Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
#HorseRacing #Trailblazer #FemaleJockey
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Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77
Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.
