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Major Taylor Honored in South Suburban Rerelease
Larry McClellan recounts Marshall W. Major Taylor’s achievements as a pioneering Black cyclist born in 1878 near Indianapolis. Despite prejudice, he became world and national sprint champion, the first Black athlete in open integrated competition, and the subject of autobiographies. His 1948 reburial honors his legacy at Mount Glenwood Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Chalmers Barton
University of Wisconsin
W.E.B. du Bois
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
W.C. Handy
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
YMCA
Marshall
Europe
America
Marshall Taylor
Indianapolis
Andrew Ritchie
Major Taylor
United States
Australia
Taylor
Worchester
Mass
Chicago
Mount Glenwood
Thornton
Cial
Larry McClellan
Governors State University
the Star
159Th St
Tinley Park
Joseph P. Meier
Indiana
Ager