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All About Wilma Rudolph

My famous black American is Wilma Rudolph. She was born in 1940 in St. Bethlehem,Tennessee. Wilma is famous for winning three gold medals in a single olympics for track and field. She has been in track for seven years,she started in 1955 and retired in 1962. Her birthday was June 23. Wilma died on November 12,1994 because of brain cancer. She found out she was diagnosed with polio when she was four and at the age of eleven years old she lost her use of her left leg. At the age of six-teen she completed in her first olympics. She died at the age of 54.

By Witney and Aamaya