The Mike Glenn Collection A Pictorial And Literary Exhibit March 11, 2009

The Mike Glenn Collection is a rare collection of artifacts dated from the early 1700s to the present. The March to April exhibition will highlight outstanding ahtletes from Molineaux to Michael. A Pictorial and literary exhibit of rare books, artifacts, and Publications of historical and present significance. Rare books on Black sports figures.

Beginning with Tom Molineaux, a freed slave who received international acclaim when he fought the World Heavyweight Champion Tom Cribb in 1810 and 1811, the exhibit features artifacts and highlights accomplishments that preserves and reveres the struggles of black athletes. Other noted items feature Issac Burns Murphy, the first jockey to win 3 Kentucky Derbies; Marshall Taylor; a bicycle rider who became the first American born black man to win a national title in any sport; and Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in one Olympics.