Black Champions: Interview with Lee Elder

His experiences with racism and golf, from death threats in Memphis to breaking the sporting color barrier in South Africa.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on July 16, 1985

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Excerpt from an interview with Lee Elder conducted for a documentary entitled "Black Champions." The full interview, in which he discusses his career as a golfer, including discrimination and racism he faced playing at various golf clubs and as a member of the PGA. is available on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting website.