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Emma Clarke: The first Black woman footballer
Emma Clarke is the greatest black female footballer you’ve probably never heard of. Playing in 1895, a contemporary of the world’s first black professional footballer, Arthur Wharton, remarkably Emma’s story only came to light in 2017. If it was not for Stuart Gibbs, an artist with an interest in women’s football, the story might never have been uncovered.
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