Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach (died 2001)

Mabel Fairbanks

American figure skater and coach (1915–2001)

Mabel Fairbanks 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…