Just four years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Solly Walker made history of his own becoming the first African-American to play at St. John’s.
On Sunday, Walker is set to be honored at the El Caribe Country Club in southeastern Brooklyn by the Brooklyn U.S.A. Athletic Association.
Walker was a 6-foot-4 guard and a native of Bedford-Stuyvesant, which is where the St. John’s campus was located at the time.
Walker, who died this past May, is also believed to be the first African-American player to play at University of Kentucky.