Posts Tagged ‘Fredricka’  Architecture In Helsinki  Thursday,
August 27th, 2009 Marvelous Malvin Whitfield, Fredricka and film
producer Miia Jonkka.  Marvelous Malvin Whitfield, Fredricka and
film producer Miia Jonkka.  Marvelous Malvin Whitfield is a
Tuskegee Airman, a former diplomat, an Olympian and among other
things, my father-in-law. He earned his Olympic medals running
400m and 800m races during the London and Helsinki games in 1948
and 1952. As he once told me, “The 800 is a man’s race.”  He was
recently invited to Helsinki, Finland to take part in a
documentary being filmed on Blacks in Finland. There have never
been many Blacks in the Scandinavian country. Its population
today is 5 million people with less than 20,000 Blacks.
Marvelous Mal is 85 and does not get around the track as well as
in the old days. His daughter, and my wife Fredricka, and I
traveled with him to help along the way. Mr. Whitfield’s part in
the documentary focuses on his time there in 1952; his memories
on what he experienced