Book tells story of girl who broke Spelling Bee color barrier in 1936

ViewEighty-five years before Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MacNolia Cox took the Bee by storm. 

She, along with Elizabeth Kenny, became the first Black participants of the Spelling Bee. Their presence at the 1936 Bee, however, wasn’t universally...