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Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: McFarland
Provides information on African-American women who have participated in Olympic track and field events from 1932 to 1988.
Language: en
Pages: 339
Pages: 339
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-09 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Winner, Autobiography/Memoir, International Book Awards, 2023 Winner, Biography/Autobiography, Track and Field Writers of America (TAFWA) Book Award, 2022 A raw
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: 772
Pages: 772
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-01 - Publisher: McFarland
In 1985 the Vassar College Athletic Association ignored the constraints placed on women athletes of that era and held its first-ever womens field day, featuring
Language: en
Pages: 842
Pages: 842
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: VNR AG
Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or interna