SOUTH BEND, IN - SEPTEMBER 29: General view of the Main Administration Building and Golden Dome are seen on the campus of Notre Dame University before the Notre Dame Fighting Irish versus Stanford Cardinal game at Notre Dame Stadium on September 29, 2018 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Notre Dame football is proud to remember the first black student-athlete to earn a monogram award at the school, Wayne Edmonds.
It’s no secret that the end of segregation in sports was a long, drawn out one. While Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947 for baseball, the Red Sox wouldn’t integrate until 1959 when Pumpsie Green took the field at Fenway.