- Her parents were sharecroppers, and she picked cotton when she was a child.
- A prominent basketball player in the 1970s, she led Mississippi's Delta State University to three consecutive national championships, scored the first points in a women's Olympic basketball game and was drafted by the New Orleans Jazz.
- Her idol was Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson.
- She received a master's degree in education from Delta State, where she was an assistant coach. She spent two years as head women's coach at Texas Southern University, then taught and coached in high schools in Mississippi.
- Inducted into the Delta State's Hall of Fame in 1983.
- First African American woman to Enshrined into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 1999.
- Survived by her two daughters, Crystal Stewart Washington, Christina Jordan, two sons, George Jr., and Christopher, three brothers, Clarence Harris, Kendrick Blossom, and Ronnie Blossom, four sisters, Ethel James, Ella Harris, Darlene Lindsey, and Linda Washington, 10 grandchildren.
- Played for the Houston Angels in the Women's Professional Basketball League during the 1979-80 season.
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