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*Several* Women to Know: The Wake-Robin Golf Club

*Several* Women to Know: The Wake-Robin Golf Club

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Mar 06, 2017
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People had it set in their mind that black women didn't belong on the course. — Winifred Stanford, WRGC member

(image via Black History Historical Photo Archive)


When Helen Webb-Harris and her friends founded the Wake-Robin Golf Club in 1938, their mission was simple: "To perpetuate golf among Negro women, to make potential players into champions and to …

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