TITLE IX FROM THE FRONT ROW: The History of Women's Sports at Fisk University 1970-1990 - Softcover

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Dr. Harriet Kimbro-Hamilton is from Nashville, Tennessee. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education from Fisk University in 1975. As an undergraduate she was on the first women’s basketball team and a member of the women’s tennis team. She earned a master's degree in Sports Administration from Florida State University in 1976. In 2003, she received her doctorate in Sport and Recreation Management from Temple University.

In the fall of 1976, she started her career as a teacher/coach at Bethune-Cookman College. She started the women’s basketball program at the college. During the 1977-78 season, her team made history by winning the FAIAW Conference Championship in women’s basketball. After being recruited back to her alma mater, her women’s basketball team made history at Fisk by winning the 1979-1980 TCWSF Women’s Basketball Conference Championship. Also, in her role as Fisk University women’s volleyball team, Dr. Hamilton and her team made history by winning the 1988 WIAC Conference Volleyball Championship.

Prior to her retirement as a college professor at Tennessee State University in 2020, Dr. Hamilton taught at Alabama A&M University, Stillman College, Bethune-Cookman College, and was a Metro-Davidson County school teacher. She has received numerous awards from the Women’s Sport Foundation, and the National Association of Girls and Women in Sport. In 2012, she was inducted into the Temple University Women’s Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame. In 2017, she was inducted into Fisk University Sports Hall of Fame. She has also received numerous recognitions as an author for her body of work about Negro League Baseball history and her father, Negro Leaguer Henry Kimbro.

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