Charles Jackson French was recently honored by a US post office in Omaha and a Naval pool in San Diego, California
The Incredible Histories of Charles And Charlie Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame and Challenger Community News, Western New York. The exploits of Charles Jackson French and Charles Chapman, Jr. are part of open water swimming lore that was part the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Black Swimming History Exhibition [see here]. The
Courtesy of Bruce Wigo, International Swimming Hall of Fame, Florida. When an open water swim takes on the additional pressure of being a life-and-death situation, especially with the lives of others at stake, the term epic could not be more true. Bruce Wigo of the International Swimming Hall of Fame researched the long-forgotten story of the exploits
