September 29, 2001(2001-09-29) (aged 85) Burbank, California
Figure skating career
Country
United States
Coach
Maribel Vinson Owen Howard Nicholson
Mabel Fairbanks (November 14, 1915 – September 29, 2001) was an American figure skater and coach. As an African American and Native American woman she paved the way for other minorities to compete in the sport of figure skating such as Tai Babilonia, Debi Thomas, and Naomi Lang. She was inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame, as the first person of African American and Native American descent, and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
MabelFairbanks (November 14, 1915 – September 29, 2001) was an American figure skater and coach. As an African American and Native American woman she...
and retired senator Mabel Smith Douglass (1874–1933), American academic MabelFairbanks (1915–2001), American figure skater Mabel FitzRobert, Countess...
began skating together at eight and ten years old when skating coach MabelFairbanks needed a young pair team for a skating show in Culver City, California...
cinematographer (aged 78) Douglas Fairbanks (1883–1939), actor (aged 56) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909–2000), actor (aged 90) MabelFairbanks (1915–2001), figure skater...
Culver City Ice Arena and the Santa Monica Ice Chalet, coached by MabelFairbanks and John Nicks. After ending his competitive career, Beauchamp skated...
she met the pioneer for African Americans in figure skating, MabelFairbanks. Fairbanks inspired Flack to continue skating after wanting to stop at an...
2000 – John Grant, English journalist and politician (b. 1932) 2001 – MabelFairbanks, American figure skater and coach (b. 1915) 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu...
German-British actress. Viktor Belov, 76, Russian football player and manager. MabelFairbanks, 85, American figure skater and coach. Gloria Foster, 67, American...
2003) 1914 – Ken Carson, American Western singer (d. 1994) 1915 – MabelFairbanks, American figure skater and coach (d. 2001) 1915 – Martha Tilton, American...
drew much media attention, but was not the first. Long before Willie, MabelFairbanks, born in 1915 in Florida, competed in figure skating, yet was often...
The Fairbanks (Fairbank) family is a noted American and Canadian family of English origin. The family descends from colonist Jonathan Fairbanks, who emigrated...
Sullivan 1996 Andree Anderson & Donald Jacoby 1997 Joan Tozzer Cave 1997 MabelFairbanks 1997 Frederick C. LeFevre 1997 Barbara Roles Williams 1997 Benjamin...
around 1951 or 1952) is a retired American figure skater. Coached by MabelFairbanks and then Peter Betts, he represented the Los Angeles Skating Club....
discuss the present and future of the sport's queer community. 11 "MabelFairbanks: Beyond The Edge" 47:32 February 23, 2022 (2022-02-23) This episode...
recipient of the Navy Commendation Medal, in Willoughby, Ohio (d. 1983); MabelFairbanks, American figure skater, first African-American to be inducted into...
Stroheim Devora Lillian as Mary Miles Minter Maxwell DeMille as Douglas Fairbanks Alex Monty Canawati as Rudolph Valentino Adnan Taletovich as John Gilbert...
Douglas Fairbanks. In 1920, Pickford filed for divorce from Moore when she agreed to his demand of $100,000 settlement. Pickford and Fairbanks married...
United Artists, a corporation he co-founded with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Chaplin was accused...
Writing. Does not include the technical categories. Loretta Young Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Madeline Kahn John Gielgud George C. Scott Larry Linville Meredith...
Holiday Ken Horton Television film 1991 Tales from the Crypt Dr. Carl Fairbanks Episode: "Abra Cadaver" L'Amérique en otage Jody Powell Television film...
on cookery courses and she cooked for the visitors including Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Marlene Dietrich. She rarely spoke about these celebrities after...
Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd as well as with his nephew, Al St. John. He also...
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