African-American Athlete Tommy Haynes Reigns as Prime Challenger in Track and Field at MTSU
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March 9, 2020, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal I thoroughly enjoy researching living history as much as ancestral narratives. A favorite athlete is an African-American Olympian from MTSU, who forged everlasting history for the college in 1976. Thomas Zarlef Haynes was born July 14, 1952 in Nashville to parents…