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Emlen Lewis Tunnell was the first African American named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967. He was also the first pro football player to gain recognition as a defensive back, and set a record for career interceptions that would hold for two decades.  Tunnell was born to Elzie Tunnell and Catherine Adams Tunnell on March 29, 1925 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Tunnell’s mother was a domestic worker who principally raised him and his three siblings.  Tunnell grew up in Radnor, Pennsylvania, where he attended high school and played varsity football. He subsequently played on the football team at Toledo University where, during an early season game, he landed awkwardly and fractured his neck. The doctors told Tunnell that his football playing days were over. Tunnell, however, went on to make the university’s basketball team. In 1943 Tunnell volunteered to serve in World War II. Though his injuries disqualified him from enlistment in the Army, Tunnell was able to serve o...

Roberto Clemente  was a  Puerto Rican   professional baseball player . Clemente spent eighteen  Major League Baseball  (MLB) seasons playing in the  National League  (NL) as a  right fielder  for the  Pittsburgh Pirates . He was inducted into the  National Baseball Hall of Fame  in 1973, becoming the first Latin American and Caribbean born player to be enshrined. His death established the precedent that, as an alternative to the five-year retirement period, a deceased player for at least six months is eligible for entry into the Hall of Fame. Clemente was an All-Star for twelve seasons and fifteen  All-Star Games . He was the NL  Most Valuable Player  in 1966, the NL  batting leader  in 1961, 1964, 1965, and 1967, and a  Gold Glove  winner for twelve consecutive seasons from 1961 through 1972. His  batting average  was over .300 for thirteen seasons and he had 3,000 majo...

He was an  American   comic book  artist who drew the costumed crime fighter  Phantom Lady , among many other characters. Active in the 1940's and 1950's  Golden Age of comic books , he is the first known  African-American  artist to find success in the comic-book industry. He also  penciled  an early form of  graphic novel ,  St. John Publications '  digest-sized  " picture novel "  It Rhymes with Lust  (1950). Baker was inducted into the  Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame  in 2009. Baker was born in  Forsyth County ,  North Carolina . At a young age he relocated with his family to  Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, and after graduating high school circa 1940, moved to  Washington, D.C. . Prevented by a heart condition from being drafted into the U.S. military in  World War II  era, he began studying art at  Cooper Union , in  New York ...