Word: sifford
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close second is Gary Player, who at 62 won last year's Northville Long Island Classic. And two other competitors, Miller Barber and Charlie Sifford, last year accomplished equally difficult feats, shooting their ages or below--Barber shot a 67 two times, and Sifford, 76, shot...
...symbol of racial progress but see him as a traitor. To them Woods appeared to be running away from being an African American--a condition, they were quick to point out, that he himself had emphasized when he paid tribute to black golf pioneers Teddy Rhoades, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder in his graceful victory speech. In a mirror image of Zoeller's constricted views, some blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of "passing." Arthur Fletcher, a black member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, testified...
...Robinson disproved with a fiery passion that whites have a stronger desire to win. Muhammad Ali demonstrated in the ring that speed and power were only the obvious ways in which a black athlete could be agile and courageous. There have been other pathfinders: decathlete Milt Campbell, golfer Charlie Sifford, and in Ashe's own sport the lithe and graceful Althea Gibson...