She attended Tennessee State on a scholarship, where she was coached by Ed Temple, who also coached Wilma Rudolph and several other Black female Olympic athletes.
There are going to be people in history who are going to be talked about, but it takes all of us to make it work. When the numbers are larger, you can get a lot more done. I didn't do my protest [at the Mexico City Olympics] to get credit for it. I did it because it was the right thing to do for human beings. It was the right thing to do for people of color. It was the right thing to do for women.
