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Black American athlete who won gold was one of the 1924 Paris Olympics’ firsts
PARIS — A century ago, at a small stadium just outside Paris, a college track and field star from Ohio named William DeHart Hubbard took a dramatic leap forward for himself and for all African Americans back home in the segregated United States of America. …