THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN TO WIN OLYMPIC GOLD WAS JOHN BAXTER TAYLOR JR., NOT JESSE OWENS
Channel: Papa Daddy Unscripted
Date: 07/02/2023

John Baxter Taylor Jr.  November 3, 1883, Washington, DC – December 2, 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was an American track and field athlete, notable as the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, and the most prominent African American member of the Irish American Athletic Club. He was a member of the Sigma Pi Phi, the first black fraternity. 
Taylor was a member of the gold medal medley relay team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London