The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were fraught with change and significance. It was a time of racial struggle in the United States. The Cold War between the USSR and the United States was heating up.

The 1960 Rome Games heralded historic victories for Muhammad Ali, track star Wilma Rudolph, and decathlete Rafer Johnson in the first fully televised Olympics in North America. But the journey from ...

At the 1960 Summer Games in Rome, he set a world record in the 400-meter race and another in the 4 x 400 relay, where he anchored the United States team’s victory. By Richard Sandomir Otis Davis, who ...

Wilma Rudolph was born a very sickly child, suffering through cases of pneumonia, scarlet fever and then polio — the latter of which left her without feeling in her left leg and foot. She wore a leg ...

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