Word: blackamoor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medals on his bureau and his degree from Ohio State in one of its drawers, he was able to support himself only by racing against horses as a sort of sideshow at Negro League baseball games. To TIME, he was variously the "coffee-colored" Owens, "the world's fastest blackamoor" or "the dusky speedster." But to Jackie Robinson and millions of other black Americans, he was inspiration and paladin, a sign of things to come...