A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / Jennifer H. Lansbury.
| Author/creator |
Lansbury, Jennifer H. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Fayetteville [Arkansas] : University of Arkansas Press, 2014. |
| Description | 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013956223 |
| ISBN | 1557286582 |
| ISBN | 9781557286581 |
| Other class# | HI.F 3/178-8:S 63/2014 |
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