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A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Jennifer H. Lansbury
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
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 were confined to competing within the black community, through the heady days of the late twentieth century when they ruled the world of women’s ... Read more
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 were confined to competing within the black community, through the heady days of the late twentieth century when they ruled the world of women’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286581
SKU
V9781557286581
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About Jennifer H. Lansbury
Jennifer H. Lansbury formerly served as assistant professor of history and director of the sport and American culture minor at George Mason University, USA.
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