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Author Lansbury, Jennifer H.
Title Spectacular Leap : Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America / Jennifer H. Lansbury.
Publication Info Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2014.


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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.
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ISBN 9781610755429 (electronic bk.)
1610755421 (electronic bk.)
1306488915 (electronic bk.)
9781306488914 (electronic bk.)
9781557286581
1557286582
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Author Lansbury, Jennifer H.
Subject African American women athletes -- Biography.
Descript 1 online resource
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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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781610755429 (electronic bk.)
1610755421 (electronic bk.)
1306488915 (electronic bk.)
9781306488914 (electronic bk.)
9781557286581
1557286582
Author Lansbury, Jennifer H.
Subject African American women athletes -- Biography.

Subject African American women athletes -- Biography.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
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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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781610755429 (electronic bk.)
1610755421 (electronic bk.)
1306488915 (electronic bk.)
9781306488914 (electronic bk.)
9781557286581
1557286582
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