A spectacular leap
Subtitle: black women athletes in twentieth-century America
By: Jennifer H. Lansbury
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Fayetteville [Arkansas]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781557286581
Subjects: African American women athletes; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Queen of the courts: Ora Washington and the emergence of America's first black female sport celebrity --; title: "The Tuskegee flash": Alice Coachman and the challenges of 1940s U.S. women's track and field --; title: "A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950s black tennis --; title: "Foxes, not oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the de-marginalization of American women's track and field --; title: "The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the racial reality of black women track athletes in the 1960s and 1970s --; title: "A Jackie of all trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the challenges of being the world's greatest female athlete --; title: Performance-enhanced athletes and "ghetto Cinderellas": black women athletes enter the twenty-first century.