GCNAVF Wilma Rudolph Boulevard (Traditional Cache) in Tennessee, United States created by White Snake

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Hidden : 4/2/2005

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Small Cache container, magnetic key holder. Log and pencil only.

Welcome to Clarksville, Tennessee. This portion of State Highway 79 is named in honor of Wilma Glodean Rudolph. A truly missed local treasure. Wilma Rudolph's life is a story of achieving against the odds. Her first accomplishments were to stay alive and get well! On September 7th, 1960, in Rome, Wilma became the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in the Olympics. She won the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and ran the anchor on the 400-meter relay team. This achievement led her to become one of the most celebrated female athletes of all time. In addition, her celebrity caused gender barriers to be broken in previously all-male track and field events.

There was one "first" accomplishment that was more special than any of the others, however. For Wilma, the fact that she insisted that her homecoming parade in Clarksville, Tennessee be open to everyone and not a segregated event as was the usual custom. Her victory parade was the first racially integrated event ever held in the town. And that night, the banquet the townspeople held in her honor, was the first time in Clarksville's history that blacks and whites had ever gathered together for the same event.

I have included a great web site, with her biography.

Click Here For More InformationWilma Glodean Rudolph

Now here are some open HINTS. (1) During Wilma’s younger days if this cache site where here,It would be a segregated site (2) She would have to sit in the back.

Be sure to check out her Memorial on Riverside, and her gravesite. I hope to provide you with a little piece of Clarksville’s history.

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