Willie O'Ree (born October 15, 1935, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey player, known best as the first black player in the National Hockey League. He played as a winger for the Boston Bruins. He is frequently but erroneously referred to as the first African-American player, though he is in fact African-Canadian. Wikipedia
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Willie O'Ree. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_O%27Ree