American Wilma Rudolph crosses the finish line in a women’s sprint event ... Two years later, she was diagnosed with brain and throat cancer. She died on Nov. 12, 1994, at age 54. Her legacy continues ...

"Wilma Rudolph came along at a very important ... what the US could have paid her for," Temple said of Rudolph. Rudolph died of brain cancer in 1994 at age 54 in Nashville. She coached track ...

Rudolph later became active in youth work, heading the Wilma Rudolph Foundation ... and dormitory at Tennessee State University are named in honor of Rudolph. Rudolph died of a brain tumor on November ...

Today: Wilma Rudolph. In the 1950s and 1960s ... In 1994, Rudolph was diagnosed with brain cancer in July and died in November of the same year at the age of 54. She will be remembered by several ...

Wilma Rudolph outran poverty ... She was a hero to all of us in the sport.” Rudolph died at home in Nashville only four months after being diagnosed with cancer. By an odd coincidence, the ...

I said, 'Aunt Wilma' and she came over and gave me a hug and I got to shake Muhammad Ali’s hand," Sammy said. This week, Rudolph would have been 81 years old. She died in 1994 of cancer.

“But Wilma Rudolph came along at a very important ... worked with underprivileged children. Rudolph died from a brain tumour at the age of 54 in 1994, but not before witnessing Florence Griffith ...

One of the few coaches in the Olympic Hall of Fame has died. Ed Temple coached sprinter Wilma Rudolph and the legendary Tigerbelles of Tennessee State University. A pivotal figure in American ...

After an acting career that included playing the Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph in a TV movie ... that dug deeply into the Black experience, died on Oct. 10 in Bellingham, Wash.

In the eighties, she established the Wilma Rudolph Foundation to support young people in underserved communities through sports and academics. In 1994, at age 54, she died of brain cancer ...

In the eighties, she established the Wilma Rudolph Foundation to support young people in underserved communities through sports and academics. In 1994, at age 54, she died of brain cancer ...