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Lynne Tolman

Lynne Tolman

Lynne Tolman is a copy editor at the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette. A recreational cyclist, she wrote the newspaper’s bicycling column for a decade. She has a B.S. in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is president of the nonprofit Major Taylor Association, Inc., which commissioned a statue of Major Taylor that was dedicated in 2008—Worcester’s first monument to an African American. To learn more about Major Taylor, visit www.majortaylorassociation.org.

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Cycling Champion Major Taylor and the African American Press

November 2012 (Volume 7, Issue 4)
As a superstar athlete in the most popular sport of his era, 1899 world bicycling champion Major Taylor saw his racing victories well chronicled in mainstream newspapers as well as cycling publications. But it was the African American press, less concerned with the play by play, which revealed a more...

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