[PDF.65fa] A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America

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 years before they would experience something akin to the national fame and recognition that African American men had known since the 1930s, the days of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens. From the 1920s, when black women athletes w...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America   |  Jennifer H. Lansbury. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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