Peter Westbrook of the Peter Westbrook Foundation at the Fencers Club in Manhattan, New York is pictured on Saturday, December 7, 2019. (Clarissa Sosin / New York Daily News via Getty Images) Clarissa ...
By Jeré Longman Peter Westbrook, a six-time Olympian who was inspired by a 1950s television swashbuckler and by his mother’s clever bribery, and who in 1984 became the first African American ...
Peter Westbrook, who became the first Black fencer to win an Olympic medal for the U.S., then started a New York City fencing academy that produced many Olympians and made a profound impact on ...
Peter Westbrook, the first Black American fencer to win an Olympic medal and who later developed multiple Olympic champions while coaching underserved youth in New York, died Friday, according to his ...