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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 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 comp
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- Author
- Jennifer H. Lansbury
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781610755429
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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