Motley, Marion, 1920-1999
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African American athletes
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Football players
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found: Atwood, Gretchen. Lost champions, 2016:ECIP galley (In the spring of 1946 the NFL's Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington and Woody Strode. The Rams became the first NFL team to integrate and did so a year before Robinson was promoted to the major leagues in baseball. Several months after the Rams signed Washington and Strode, the Cleveland Browns inked Bill Willis and Marion Motley to contracts. These four men broke the color line in modern pro football)
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2016-07-25: new
2023-06-01: revised
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