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Author:

Lansbury, Jennifer H.

Title:

Spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America.

Publisher:

University of Arkansas Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

African American women athletes--Biography.

Notes:

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781557286581
1557286582

OCLC:

(OCoLC)866922879

LCCN:

2013956223

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

OPAX566 -- Southeastern Community College - Keokuk - Fred Karre Memorial Library (Keokuk)