Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win 3 gold medals, emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as "The Tornado," the fastest woman on earth. Her Olympic success was the continua-tion of the accomplishments of a very remarkable life.
On June 23, 1940 Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely and weighed less than 5 pounds. Wilma and her mother were not permitted to be cared for at the whites-only, local hospital. She was a very sickly child. Her mother nursed her through measles, mumps, scarlet feve…
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Posted on May 10, 2009 at 7:30am —