As an athlete, he helped integrate the NFL. Woody Strode. Supplied by UCLA Born in Los Angeles in 1914, Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode died at age 80 on New Year's Eve 1994. He was interred with ...

That long-forgotten part of the NFL's history is the subject of a new book, "The Forgotten First," which looks at the lives of Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley and Bill Willis.

Known as the "Forgotten Four," Marion Motley, Woody Strode, Kenny Washington and Bill ... opened the door to opportunity for generations of NFL players to come, but it also changed the game ...

JOHNSON: Fritz Pollard was the first Black player in the NFL, but then there was a hiatus for about 12 years prior to Kenny Washington and Woody Strode and Marion Motley, Bill Willis getting ...

So after Motley and Willis joined the Browns, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode became NFL pioneers by joining the Rams. The NFL has embraced the documentary and has partnered with Epix in ...

Yet the NFL too was once segregated ... Washington’s old UCLA teammate Woody Strode, to be his brother in arms. Their experience lived up to Marshall’s violent promise.

Woody Strode was one of three UCLA football players who changed history. Along with Kenny Washington, Strode was one of the first black men to join the NFL in 1946. Strode's NFL career was brief ...

UCLA will honor former players Woody Strode and Kenny Washington ... player in Major League Baseball. Washington and Strode signed with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams while Motley and Willis signed ...

But do you know the names of Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley or Bill Willis ... the story of the men who helped break the NFL's color barrier. NPR's A Martinez sat down with Johnson ...

A new documentary making its debut on Tuesday evening explores a mostly forgotten chapter of NFL history ... on the stories of Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley and Bill Willis.

JOHNSON: Fritz Pollard was the first Black player in the NFL, but then there was a hiatus for about 12 years prior to Kenny Washington and Woody Strode and Marion Motley, Bill Willis getting ...