Jul 24, 2022
Host Rekaya Gibson pays tribute to Louise Fulton, an American professional bowler. In 1964, she won the Professional Women’s Bowling Association’s Princeton Open, becoming the first African American to win a professional bowling title. Also, Fulton was the first African American bowler inducted into the United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in 2001. #blackbowler #blackwomenbowlers #keepitsporty
Mentioned in
this episode:
Marjorie Mitchell, professional bowler
Meadow Lanes Bowling Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Sources:
Louise Fulton and Marjorie Mitchell Papers and Photographs,
1982-2010, MSS 897, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and
Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center.
historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-QQS-mss897/viewer
United States Bowling Congress. (2022). Louise Fulton.
bowl.com/usbc-hall-of-fame/hall-of-famers/louise-fulton
Wiggins, D. K., & Swanson, R. A. (Eds.). (2016). Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation. University of Arkansas Press. doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1f89v0m