Wilma RudolphLerner Publications and the A&E Television Networks have teamed up to create Biography for young readers. With highly accessible text and engaging photographs, this engrossing collection offers in-depth profiles of some of the world's most interesting figures. |
Contents
Wilma | 7 |
Just Fight This Thing | 15 |
Skeeter | 25 |
The Road to Victory | 35 |
Bronze Doesnt Shine | 43 |
Changes | 57 |
Going for the Gold | 67 |
Struggles | 87 |
The Final Race | 97 |
Bibliography | 106 |
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1960 Olympic Games 1960 Summer Olympics 400-meter relay American athletes baby basketball basketball team Betty Cuthbert black school brace Bud Greenspan Burt High School champion Chicago Tribune Clarksville Clarksville's Coach Gray Coach Temple compete competition Cuthbert doctor Evelyn Ashford fans fastest woman Florence Griffith Joyner friends girls hometown Honor Wilma Ibid inspiration Jackie Robinson June Jutta Heine Keenan kids Leaf-Chronicle live Lucinda Williams Mae Faggs Melbourne mother Nancy Nashville never November 13 Olympic trials play polio President race she entered Robert Eldridge Rome runners running segregated sister Yvonne star struggled teammates Tennessean Tennessee third gold medal three gold medals Tigerbelles told Wilma track and field track team Tuskegee victory wanted watched Wilma decided Wilma knew Wilma remembered Wilma took Wilma was born Wilma wrote Wilma's parents win three gold women World Speed Queen Yolanda York