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01970aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 C8E1D5BC6EF011E4A96E8DE8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141118010117 008 131230s2014 aruaf b s001 0ceng d 010 $a 2013956223 020 $a 9781557286581 020 $a 1557286582 035 $a (OCoLC)866922879 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d TNS $d AST $d OCLCQ $d EEK $d NXW $d CDX $d OCLCF $d DEBSZ $d IAD $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Lansbury, Jennifer H. 245 10 $a Spectacular leap : $b black women athletes in twentieth-century America. 260 $a Fayetteville, Arkansas : $b University of Arkansas Press, $c 2014. 300 $a 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index. 505 0 $a Queen of the courts: Ora Washington and the emergence of America's first black female sport celebrity -- "The Tuskegee flash": Alice Coachman and the challenges of 1940s U.S. women's track and field -- "A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950s black tennis -- "Foxes, not oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the de-marginalization of American women's track and field -- "The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the racial reality of black women track athletes in the 1960s and 1970s -- "A Jackie of all trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the challenges of being the world's greatest female athlete -- Performance-enhanced athletes and "ghetto Cinderellas": black women athletes enter the twenty-first century. 650 0 $a African American women athletes $v Biography. 941 $a 3 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508021403.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826101733.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20141118011627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C8E1D5BC6EF011E4A96E8DE8DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search