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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lansbury, Jennifer H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women athletes--Biography.

African American women athletes.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, Arkansas : University of Arkansas Press, 2014.

Contents:

1 Queen of the Courts: Ora Washington and the Emergence of Americas First Black Female Sport Celebrity 11

2 "The Tuskegee Flash": Alice Coachman and the Challenges of 1940s U.S. Women's Track and Field 43

3 "A Nationwide Community Project": Althea Gibson, Class, and the Racial Politics of 1950s Black Tennis 75

4 "Foxes, Not Oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the De-Marginalization of American Women's Track and Field 115

5 "The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the Racial Reality of Black Women Track Athletes in the 1960s and 1970s 151

6 "A Jackie of All Trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the Challenges of Being the World's Greatest Female Athlete 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

ISBN:

1557286582

9781557286581

OCLC:

866922879