Louise Fulton

Louise Vivian Fulton lived from about 1917 to May 7, 1988, and was an American professional ten-pin bowler and a bowling pioneer. She was the first African American to win a professional tournament and one of the first African Americans to compete on the women's professional bowling tour. She was also the first of her race to be invited to a professional league when she joined the Professional Women's Bowling Association in 1962, and the United States Bowling Congress inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 2001. Ten-pin bowling is a sport in which players roll a heavy ball down a lane to knock over ten pins, and its professional circuits and national federations keep records of titles, tours and halls of fame. This entry records only what the cited Wikipedia lead states about the athlete.