Good Black Information: The Each day Drop – GBN Each day Drop for Could 8, 2022: Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph (Quote)

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Hey, that is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, right here to share with you a each day drop of Good Black Information for Sunday, Could eighth, 2022, primarily based on the “A Yr of Good Black Information Web page-A-Day Calendar” revealed by Workman Publishing. As we speak, for Mom’s Day, we provide a quote from three-time Olympic Gold Medalist and Nationwide Monitor and Area Corridor of Famer Wilma Rudolph, who had polio as a younger youngster:

“My docs informed me I’d by no means stroll once more. My mom informed me I’d. I believed my mom.”

Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born prematurely in June 1940 and after contracting Scarlet Fever, pneumonia, polio and childish paralysis, Rudolph wore braces on her legs till she was 9 years outdated. As a result of there was so little medical care accessible to Black individuals in Nineteen Forties C

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