Better than the Best: Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007

Better than the Best: Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007
ISBN-10
0295801697
ISBN-13
9780295801698
Series
Better Than the Best
Category
Social Science
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2011-05-01
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Authors
John C. Walter, Malina Iida

Description

In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions. In sports as diverse as football and fencing, wrestling and track and field, these men and women triumphed over the odds to become better than the best. Their legacy is in their accomplishments and in their determination to continue contributing to the societal transformation their efforts helped make possible.

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