Comparing Tidye Pickett's Life And Accomplishments
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Identify the following individuals on your timeline – year, with accomplishment:
¥ Tidye Pickett: She was the first African American women to participate in the summer Olympics in 1936 which was held in Berlin. Pickett ran the 80 meter-hurdle.
¥ Babe Didrikson: 1932: Didrikson had a great deal of success in golf, basketball and track and field. Didrikson won two gold medals and one silver for track and field in the Los Angeles Olympics. In 1946 she won the women’s amateur in golf and in 1947 she went on to win the British Ladies Amateur.
¥ Wilma Rudolph : Wilma at one point was considered to be one of the fastest women in the world in the 1960’s. She was able to compete in two Olympic games which took place in the 1956 and 1960. Rudolph was