Please find any person or specific event that relates to an issue with race in sport. Fully explain why this person or specific event is significant to the issue of race in sport, what happened (some background on the topic), did anything change because of this person or event, and any other important information regarding the topic.

Please leave a detailed response!

(Example: Jackie Robinson and what he went through to break the color barrier in baseball)

(Example: How 70% of NFL players are black but there are only 2 black head coaches, issues behind this)

(Find and use references)