When the world's most famous cyclist was a Black man and a Hoosier By Jack Sells, TheStatehouseFile.com March 7, 2023
At one point, Indiana had a claim on the fastest cyclist in the world. In consecutive years, Marshall Taylor won a world title and U.S. title in bicycle racing.
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At one point, Indiana had a claim on the fastest cyclist in the world. In consecutive years, Marshall Taylor won a world title and U.S. title in bicycle racing.
Legend has it that Henri Desgrange, creator of the Tour de France, once paid cycling’s first Black world champion with 10-centime coins, so many that Major Taylor needed a wheelbarrow to cart the coins away. Is there any truth in this myth?