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Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Edge of Sports
A timely memoir about world record-breaking Tyus's 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-04 - Publisher: Akashic Books
Finalist for the Track and Field Writers of America’s 2018 Armory Foundation Book Award "Tyus proves as winning a storyteller as she was a runner...The 'a' in
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participat
Language: en
Pages: 254
Pages: 254
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-21 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
This exceedingly timely book looks at the history of black activist athletes and the important role of the black community in making sure fair play existed, not
Language: en
Pages: 218
Pages: 218
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Haymarket Books
John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.