A Story Worth Your Time

Here's a wonderful story from the Boston Globe about Major Taylor, aka the "Worcester Whirlwind," the legendary black man originally from Indiana who broke through the color barrier to become a world champion bicycle racer -- at the turn of the 20th century!
"He was an athletic prodigy akin to Tiger Woods, a quietly defiant racial pacesetter almost a half-century before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line... "

And check out this NPR report on Taylor.