Biographical sketches of fifty American athletes who represent eleven different sports.

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When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participat

John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.

This book includes the most significant sporting events of the 1960s, covering all the moments that generated tremendous growth in professional and college spor