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""It wasn't very fashionable for blacks to attend college," explained DeHart. "Very few of my boyhood playmates and high school chums went past high school. I was the only black on the Michigan track team those four years, and rarely competed against others only because the coach wouldn't put me on. I spent most of the time on the bench. All the negativity never stopped me I just kept pushing through it.”
William DeHart Hubbard was the first black man in the olympics and first black man to win a olympic gold medal.
He won his medal in running long jump but also specialized in 100m sprint. He also set many records in both events.
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DeHart have helped many black athletes that thought they could never make it into the Olympics. He gave them hope that someday they could win a gold medal.In 1957, he was voted into the National Track Hall of Fame by all of his fans and people that loved him and what he did for the world.
DeHart was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 25, 1903. Ever since he was little he was always had an interest in track. He specialized in running long jump, 100m sprint, and hurdles. He wasn’t only the fastest kid in school but he was also very good academically. Later in life he passed high school with a 90% average. Many people said he couldn’t win and should just quit after he didn’t make the long jump team in university. In 1924 Paris Olympics [de hart was 21] he won gold medal in running long jump. That made him the first black athlete to win a gold medal in the Olympics. DeHart died on June 23, 1976.
DeHart is a nonconformist because back in 1924 black athletes were not allowed into the olympics. Dehart was entered into the olympics pretending he was another man [a white man]. When people realized that Dehart was a black man they tried to stop him. They didn't prevail. Hubbard jumped the farthest. He jumped 24ft 5 inches. Hundreds of people were infuriated by him wining and wanted to kill and rob him of his medal.