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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Passing: African-American Golf Pioneer Bill Powell (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: January 1, 2010

Bill Powell, who was honored last summer as a racial pioneer in American golf more than 60 years after building a golf course while he was shunned by the sport he loved, died Thursday (December 31, 2009)at a hospital in Canton, Ohio. He was 93.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/sports/golf/02powell.html?hpw

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