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Babe Zaharias (sports fans may now her as Mildred "Babe" Didrikson) is getting a "Medal of Freedom" today. Let's talk about how Black sportswomen were treated by her 
https://twitter.com/bgittleson/status/1347193655665287171
https://twitter.com/bgittleson/status/1347193655665287171
She didn't want to compete with Black women and threw ice water on her sleeping teammates https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sports-history-forgot-about-tidye-pickett-and-louise-stokes-two-black-olympians-who-never-got-their-shot-glory-180960138/
Tidye Pickett, the first Black American woman to compete in the Olympic Games, confronted her.
Text is from the book "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice" https://bookshop.org/a/16891/9781501162152
Text is from the book "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice" https://bookshop.org/a/16891/9781501162152
Pickett and Louise Stokes were treated horribly & snubbed by their national team coaches (relatable still) but they are still Black women we should know – for what they did & could have been #blacksportswoman https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sports-history-forgot-about-tidye-pickett-and-louise-stokes-two-black-olympians-who-never-got-their-shot-glory-180960138/
That is all the energy I'll spend on this, but the newsletter returns Saturday with a mini profile of another #blacksportswoman in history you should know. Subscribe here: https://theblacksportswoman.com/#subscribe
