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From Day to Day is a 1990 studio album by American jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller recorded together with drummer Kenny Washington and bassist Robert Hurst. This is his seventh album as a leader.
- Who Was Kenny Washington?
- Early Life
- Pro Career
After college, Kenny Washington was passed over by the NFL, which had not had an African American player since 1933. Instead, he became the biggest star and most popular player in two minor professional leagues on the West Coast. Finally, in 1946, the Los Angeles Rams signed him, ending the 12-year ban on Black players in the NFL.
Washington was born on August 31, 1918, in Los Angeles. The product of L.A.'s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, a mostly Italian section of the city, Washington was raised mainly by his grandmother and his uncle Rocky, the first uniformed African American lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department. In school, Washington was an athletic force. He l...
Despite his impressive college numbers, an NFL career was not available to Washington upon graduating from UCLA. At the time, the league was in the midst of what would prove to be a 12-year ban on African American players, a policy that had been steered into place in 1933 by Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall. Not even legendary Chic...
Kenneth Stanley Washington (August 31, 1918 – June 24, 1971) was an American professional football player who was the first African-American to sign a contract with a National Football League (NFL) team in the modern (post-World War II) era.
2. Feb. 2018 · UCLA football players (L to R) Woodrow Strode, Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington, c. 1939. Washington and Strode would become the first Black athletes in the NFL. Breaking down barriers.
19. Dez. 2021 · Raised by his grandmother Susie and his aunt Hazel and uncle Roscoe (“Rocky”) Washington, the young Kenny broke both knees in a bicycle accident at age 10, but was still a gifted athlete. He...
- Joshua Neuman
25. Apr. 2024 · Kenny Washington (born August 31, 1918, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died June 24, 1971, Los Angeles) was one of the first African American college gridiron football stars on the West Coast and one of two black players to reintegrate the National Football League (NFL) in 1946.
Ken Washington was the first All-American in the history of the University of California-Los Angeles football and the first Bruin to be elected to the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame. In his three years at UCLA, 1937-1939, the team had records of 2-6-1, 7-4-1, 6-0-4.
