Lillian Greene-Chamberlain Has Learned a Lot During Her Lifetime of Running—But She's Not Done Yet

Lillian Greene-Chamberlain, Ph.D., proved naysayers wrong and made history as an African-American woman racing in the 1950s and ’60s. “We didn’t have role models,” she says. “We were our role models.' Hearst lifteveryvoice projecttellme

. Lift Every Voice records the wisdom and life experiences of the oldest Black Americans by connecting them with a new generation of Black journalists. The oral history series is running across Hearst magazine, newspaper and television websites around Juneteenth 2021. Go toWhen Lillian Greene-Chamberlain, Ph.D., was growing up in Harlem in the late 1940s and ’50s, she was told she shouldn’t compete in sports: “You can’t do that; you can’t play that; you might get hurt,” she remembers.

When you were racing in the 1950s and ’60s, those were very white countries. How did they react to seeing a Black woman competing on their level?

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