For your first research assignment, you need to find a biography of an African American athlete active before 1970. Use the below suggestions for places and tips for searching.
If you know whom you would like to research, search their name as a keyword or document title. Unfortunately, you can't limit to just people who were active before 1970, so pay attention to each entry.
Here are some options if you need help choosing an athlete:
You have a couple options. One, choose another athlete! Two, try a very broad search on the main library website. Searching a name there will give you a very large number of results to sift through, but it will be fun detective work.
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