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Title: Sammy Lee
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
On Wednesdays, Sammy Lee went to Pasadena's Brookside Pool to practice. That was the only day "non-whites" could use the pool. The next day, Lee remembers, "the pool was emptied after we used it, and fresh water was brought in." After attending Occidental College, than medical school at USC, the Lee won gold medals in platform diving in 1948 and 1952, becoming the first Korean-American (and first Asian-American) to win Olympic gold. Photo dated: June 15, 1940.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048891
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 963.
CARL0000052929
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17356
Subject: Lee, Sammy,--1920-2016
Diving
Springboard diving
Swimmers
Swimming
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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