凯利·道尔菲斯·斯特劳德31岁
K.D. 1929年斯特劳德一家的照片. 从左起坐:詹姆斯、鲍比、牧师. K.D.我是罗莎·梅，我是妈妈露露. 从左起:杰克、尼娜、道尔菲斯和艾菲. This photo was taken a year after Dolphus walked and hitchhiked from Colorado Springs to Boston to run in the Olympic trials. 由科罗拉多斯普林斯先驱博物馆提供.
我父亲和我分享了这一点, although he took pride in his exploits of academic excellence and long-distance running, '... 每个人都有一个储物柜.' He had a certain humility about being elevated to high status and seemed to see life as a series of experiences that allowed the fullest development of one's potential. 他不仅是第一个被选为Phi Beta Kappa会员的黑人, 但他是1928年丹佛奥运会选拔赛的冠军. Again, racism reared its ugly head and thwarted his qualifying for the Olympics in Boston. "
- 胡安妮塔·马丁, Dolphus Stroud的女儿
Kelley Dolphus Stroud was one of the most prolific scholars and elite athletes to ever emerge from the Pikes Peak Region.
Dolphus was one of 11 children, five boys and six girls, born in Colorado Springs to the Reverend K.D. 斯特劳德和露露·麦基·斯特劳德. The Stroud family moved from the Oklahoma Territory to Colorado Springs in May of 1910, 试图将偏见和压迫抛在脑后. 科罗拉多和科罗拉多斯普林斯对斯特劳德夫妇也不怎么友好, 这个家庭的每个成员都在这里经历了令人痛苦的种族主义. 道尔菲斯在很小的时候就在学术和体育方面表现出色, 尽管多年的攻击, 迫害, 因为他的种族，他失去了很多机会.
Stroud's successes on the running track mirrored his excellence in the classroom; he first attended Bristol School and then Colorado Springs High School (now William J. 帕尔默高中). 尽管他的高中不让他参加田径队, 他曾多次赢得派克峰马拉松赛, 1928年，他打破了保持了四分之一个世纪的纪录.
1926年，他开始在赌博正规的十大网站学习, previously having been accepted at Harvard University but unable to attend there due to a lack of funding options. Local businessman and entrepreneur Henry Sachs recognized Dolphus' achievements and potential, 并资助他进入CC. 在CC, 在他妹妹之前，他是唯一的黑人学生, 埃菲, 下个学年我加入了他. 他获得了几项奖学金, including the Perkins Scholarships of $400 each for the 1929-1930 and 1930-1931 academic years, 只授予班上学术成绩最高的学生. 作为一名优秀运动员, 斯特劳德在大学的四年里一直在CC田径队, 赢得整个地区的比赛.
在他的大学教育中, 斯特劳德在大学赛道之外继续以高产的速度比赛. 尽管有资格进入美国.S. 奥运会选拔赛5号,000米比赛, 他被拒绝资助前往波士顿参加奥运会选拔赛. 可以肯定的是，如果他到了波士顿, 他将获得1928年奥运会的参赛资格, 他决定将近2点搭顺风车,7月中旬从丹佛到波士顿的距离是1000英里. 他在距离排位赛还有6个小时的时候到达了波士顿. 疲惫, 饿了, 口袋里只有零钱, 他的比赛没有按计划进行, 他没能完成, 在第六圈摔倒了.
秋天，他回到了赌博正规的十大网站, 毕业于CC，获得政治学学位, 除了一门课，其他课都得A, 也是第一位被选入优等生协会的CC学生. 从CC, 斯特劳德结婚并搬到了福赛斯, 乔治亚州, to work at the State Teachers and Agricultural College as an athletics coach and political science teacher. 晚些时候, 他继续在墨西哥大学学习, where his thesis - written entirely in Spanish - chronicled the 历史 of black people in America. 加上他的M.A.之后，斯特劳德回到美国.S., 在搬到波特兰之前在德克萨斯州教书, 俄勒冈州, 他在那里开了一家搬家和仓储公司, 还创办了自己的高尔夫锦标赛. 他在访问华盛顿特区时去世.C., in 1975. 凯利·道尔菲斯·斯特劳德于2006年入选CC体育名人堂.
胡安妮塔·马丁的回忆，Dolphus Stroud的女儿
Despite the extreme racial prejudice and segregation at 科罗拉多大学 in 1927, 我父亲似乎有一种把障碍变成垫脚石的癖好. 虽然他对科学科目有偏爱，但他受到了博士的影响. 伊迪丝·布拉姆霍尔攻读政治学专业. He wrote of himself in the third person: "He had never seen a Negro functioning in any of these (scientific) fields. 因此, he assumed that the only use he could make of such knowledge would be to teach it to Black students in the Black schools of the south. 科罗拉多大学 was eminently equipped for the social sciences but below average for the exact sciences, 除了数学. 他一直渴望成为一名作家，而政治学可能会对他有所帮助. He had read some of Bertrand Russell who was the popular theorist in a comparitively (sic) new discipline - 心理学 as well as 哲学; and he had read Kent's, “伟大的政治游戏.”,, although he did not believe that the social sciences had generated a truly new idea since the "Sermon on the Mount" was delivered by Christ, he felt that scholastic excellence in the social sciences consisted of impressing, first one's instructor and later the gullible masses with one's ability to express old ideas in new or more dramatic terms. 他觉得有能力做那件事. It was mostly new uses of unusual figures of speech at the propitious moment with the proper sounding board. 他现在的课程将以政治为主, 历史, 社会学, 心理学, 哲学, 英语, 公众演讲. 他的选修课必须是数学和科学领域."
正如你可以从上面看出的, my father--and all of the Strouds--found their subservient position in this society ludicrous and approached their survival with the necessary duplicity that Black people have, 通过必要性, 在我们与西方世界接触的过程中被采纳. This absurdity also contributes to our having developed creative means of transcendence--along with "wearing the mask" of humor.
我父亲和我分享了这一点, although he took pride in his exploits of academic excellence and long-distance running, "...每个人都有一个储物柜." He had a certain humility about being elevated to high status and seemed to see life as a series of experiences that allowed the fullest development of one's potential. 他不仅是第一个被选为Phi Beta Kappa会员的黑人, 但他是1928年丹佛奥运会选拔赛的冠军. Again, racism reared its ugly head and thwarted his qualifying for the Olympics in Boston. 摘自约翰·霍利的书, 派克峰地区的隐形人, 凯利·道尔菲斯1925年以优异的成绩从科罗拉多斯普林斯高中毕业. 他觉得有必要在接下来的两年里全职工作, 1927年，他进入赌博正规的十大网站, 还有妹妹艾菲, 他还加入了田径队. 1928年3月，他记录了派克峰的快速往返攀登, 三小时十分钟, 打破了保持了25年的纪录. In June of 1928 he entered and won an Olympic tryout race in Denver in the 5,000 meter marathon. He had been informed that the winners would be provided train fare to Boston to represent the Rocky Mountain region in the national Amateur Athletic Union final tests for the Olympics in Amsterdam.
L. M. 亨特陪着多尔菲斯去了丹佛，两人都为他的胜利欣喜若狂. 然而, their euphoria was jolted when the officials informed them that no money could be provided Dolphus, 因为他的时间与前一名获胜者的时间不一样. Dolphus和L. M. 他提出抗议，但无济于事. 他们确信肤色是决定的主要因素."
My father hitch-hiked the 2,000 miles to Boston but was too exhausted to complete the competition. 随后, 我父亲参加了在科罗拉多斯普林斯与布鲁克斯·伦肖的双人比赛, the Finish runner who prevailed against a top runner in the 1928 Olympics in the five or ten meter run. My father wrote: "Dolphus welcomed the Renshaw meeting as a means of proving to himself what he might have done had he made it to Boston with less physical drain.“我父亲跑完全程并赢得了比赛.
我的父亲没有抱怨由于种族主义而减少的机会, 但他敏锐地意识到无处不在的不公正. 他晚年的成就, 作为棒球队的经理, 作为老师, 作为一个作家和诗人, 作为钢琴家和歌手, 作为一个企业家, and as a father attest to his belief in himself and his commitment to availing himself of every opportunity to live the fullest life possible.
胡安妮塔·马丁