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Provides information on African-American women who have participated in Olympic track and field events from 1932 to 1988.
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-09 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Language: en
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Authors: Jennifer H. Lansbury
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-01 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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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
American Women's Track and Field
Language: en
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Authors: Louise Mead Tricard
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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
Notable Black American Women
Language: en
Pages: 842
Authors: Jessie Carney Smith
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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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