African American athletes

Content Description This collection contains 10 postcards featuring images from the Labor Sports Union Athletic Meet held in Brooklyn, New York, on August 25-26, 1928. Most postcards have group images of athletes or teams with one image of an individual athlete. The postcards carry descriptive information on the front about the images, and many postcards include further hand-written information on the back. The name Sirkka Holm is also written in pencil on the back of each postcard, suggesting they were once...

Scope and Contents The Mae Faggs ephemera collection consists of printed materials and ephemeral items collected by African American women’s track and field athlete Mae Faggs in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection contains items related to her college career at Tennessee A&I University, an Historically Black College and University; items documenting her participation in track events as a member of the United States national team, including the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics, the 1955 Pan American Games in...