Touch the sky
Subtitle: Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper
By: by Ann Malaspina ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Contributors: Velasquez, Eric, ill
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807580356
Subjects: Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England); African American women athletes; Juvenile literature; Jumping; Track and field athletes
Description: A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.  Includes bibliographical references.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.