A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer H. Lansbury

A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America

Jennifer H. Lansbury

300 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography politics sports informative inspiring medium-paced
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When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty...

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