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Marilyn Elaine White (born October 17, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is an American sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. She won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with teammates Willye White, Wyomia Tyus and Edith McGuire.
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Today we are featuring Marilyn White who grew up in west L.A. and achieved excellence as an athlete and as a teacher. She spoke to the project’s director, Amy Kitchener, in 1992 as part of the Shades of L.A.: African American Community project. All photos were provided by Marilyn, except where otherwise indicated. An early photo shows Marilyn, cent...
In the fall of 1962, Marilyn enrolled at UCLA. (She later completed her undergraduate education at Pepperdine.) She began training hard with Fred Jones and the Mercurettes. Marilyn with the Athlete of the Meet Award (the [distance runner] Mike Portanova award), L.A. Invitational, January 19, 1963. Image #00001691. The sports media of the day marvel...
Tokyo, Japan, hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics. The city again played host to the games in 2021, 57 years later. Marilyn was chosen as part of the American track and field team. While she missed out on a medal by inches in the 100 meter run, she and her teammates took the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay race. Marilyn and Japanese athlete Mak...
Marilyn’s experience as an athlete led her to a career as a physical education teacher, first for one year in Washington D.C., and then back in Los Angeles. Ultimately she transitioned to classroom teaching, but kept up her interest in athletics, competing again in an amateur league at the age of 40. She was still teaching as of the date of the int...
Toward the end of the interview, Marilyn talks of her new-found passion for genealogy and family history, sparked by a workshop during Black History Week in 1988. She describes tracing her family’s history on both her mother and father’s sides back several generations, meeting relatives in the process. Her stated goal, she tells the interviewer, is...
Learn about Marilyn White, a L.A. native and track and field athlete who competed in the 1964 Olympics. See her photos, stories, and achievements from the Shades of L.A. project.
Marilyn White competed in the 100 metres and 4×100 metres relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where she won a silver and a bronze medal. She also won a gold and a bronze at the 1963 Pan American Games and was the AAU indoor 220y champion in 1963.
Learn about Marilyn White, a native of Los Angeles who competed in the 1964 Olympics and became a teacher and genealogist. Listen to her oral history interview and explore her life story on Shades of L.A.
Nov 25, 2015 · Marilyn White. By Ann M. Simmons. Nov. 25, 2015 4 AM PT. Marilyn White’s fondest memory of growing up in Los Angeles was going to the market with her father. “When we would get in there, he...
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Marilyn Elaine White (born October 17, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is an American sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. She won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with teammates Willye White, Wyomia Tyus and Edith McGuire.
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