helen webb harris was one of those who paved the way. r and wife of a doctor, she was tired of staying at home while her husband played golf. so helen, along with 12 friends, founded the wake robin ladies club in 1937. the first african—american women's golf club in the usa. the only place they could play was a three—hole golf course down at the the washington monument. and they were taunted by white teenagers, threw rocks at them. and of course they were called names, and all kinds of things. but they persisted. the battle began here in washington, dc. 80 years ago this was a rubbish dump, full of broken glass, rusty tins and old tyres. the ladies were campaigning for the desegregation of public golf courses, but in 1938, they were given this. they were collecting trash on this course, and even when they built the course, they had to play over glass bottles and cans. it's not so bad to me that it was put on a crash dump, they should have tried to take away the trash. but you see, as far as they were concerned, we were trash, so that's al