Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion by Eric Velásquez, Carole Boston Weatherford

Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion

Eric Velásquez, Carole Boston Weatherford

40 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative inspiring slow-paced
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Wendell O. Scott made history as the only black driver to win a race in a NASCAR Grand National (now Spring Cup) division. Born in Danville, Virginia, he scrimped and saved to buy his first car, a Model T, at age fourteen. Although he "loved to tu...

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