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Tuesday Open Thread: African Americans in MotorSports

November 20, 2012 by Miranda 127 Comments

Good Tuesday morning Obots! Today's featured legends in the world of motorsports are Charles Wiggins and Wendell Scott. Charles Wiggins was born and raised in Indianapolis, one of the hotbeds of American auto racing, but at the time – the 1920s - a city with a deeply-divided ethnic population. Despite the heavy presence of the Ku Klux Klan and racial barriers of the day, … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African Americans in MotorSports

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