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Black Swimmers

Lia Neal celebrates during the medal ceremony for the Women's 100 m Freestyle during Day Six of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team Trials at CenturyLink Center on June 30, 2012 in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

theGrio's 100: Lia Neal, helping erase swimming's 'color line'

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theGRIO's 100 - Lia Neal became only the second African-American woman to make a U.S. Olympic swim team when she qualified for the 2012 London Games...
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