This episode describes the impact that trailblazing Black women wrestlers made on history. Featuring interview clips with wrestling legends Ethel Johnson and Ramona Isbell, Ohio State University African-American Studies professor Hasan Jeffries, and Washington Post reporter Jeff Leen. Leen is the author of the acclaimed book “Queen of the Ring,” a biography of Mildred Burke, the first women’s world wrestling champion and wife of notorious promoter Billy Wolfe.
You can learn more in the feature-length documentary “Lady Wrestler: The Amazing, Untold Story of African-American Women in the Ring,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
