🌟 Continuing our #BlackHistoryMonth spotlights, we recognize and honor Alice Coachman! Coachman was an American athlete who was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal!🥇 Coachman first attracted attention in 1939 by breaking Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) high school and college women’s high-jump records while barefoot. She won the AAU outdoor high-jump championship for the next nine years, also winning three indoor high-jump championships. She also excelled in sprints and basketball, competing at Tuskegee Institute (1940–46). She won national T&F championships in the 50 and 100-meter dashes, the 4 × 100-meter relay, and the running high jump. As a guard, she led the Tuskegee basketball team to three consecutive conference championships. At the 1948 Olympics in London, her teammate Audrey Patterson earned a bronze medal in the 200m sprint to become the first Black woman to win a medal. In the high-jump finals, Coachman leaped 5 feet 6 1/8 inches (1.68 m) on her first try ...