From top left: Ethel Johnson, Marva Scott, Kathleen Wimbley, Babs Wingo, Louise Greene, Ramona Isbell, Virginia Franklin, and Carroll Cullom. They wrestled in secret, dodged danger, and rewrote history: Discover 25 Black women who built pro wrestling’s golden era.

25 Black Women Who Built 1950s and ’60s Wrestling

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They wrestled in secret, dodged danger, and rewrote history: 25 Black women who built pro wrestling’s golden era.

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Before the era of high-profile televised women’s championship bouts, a group of Black women wrestlers from Columbus, Ohio, and beyond were quietly, and sometimes dangerously, reshaping professional wrestling from the inside out. What these twenty-five ladies accomplished deserves the brightest of spotlights.

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