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This week in history: Audrey Patterson-Tyler, the first Black woman in the U.S. to win an Olympic medal, is born

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On September 27, 1926, Audrey Patterson-Tyler, the first Black woman from the United States to win an Olympic medal, was born in New Orleans. Tyler attended Gilbert Academy, a Black preparatory school in New Orleans (located where De La Salle High School’s campus is now). In 1944, Olympian Jesse Owens, who had won four gold […]