Abstract
Mary Garber began covering sports in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1944. Garber's work as one of the first female sports journalists in the nation has been well documented. Another important part of Garber's legacy, however, has been largely ignored by journalism historians. Garber was the first white reporter in North Carolina to cover black high school and college sports in a meaningful way. Garber's work brought the news about black athletes from the segregation of the Negro News page to the equality of the Sports Section. It also changed the way stories about black athletes were written. This study takes an in-depth look at who Garber was, why she did what she did, and how she overcame several obstacles to desegregate the sports pages. It also examines newspaper coverage to gauge how her work impacted her newspaper, as well as others in North Carolina. The data show that her influence was vast and is still being felt.
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