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Malaspina, Ann, 1957-
Title
Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper / Ann Malaspina ; illustrations by Eric Velasquez.
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Chicago, Ill. : Albert Whitman, c2012.
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Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Non-Fiction
J 796.42 Mal
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Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Summary
A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Source
NBK 3/12 PPLY
Subject
Coachman, Alice -- Juvenile literature.
Track and field athletes -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
African American women athletes -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Jumping -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England) -- Juvenile literature.
Coachman, Alice.
Track and field athletes.
African Americans -- Biography.
Women -- Biography.
Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)
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Velasquez, Eric, ill.
ISBN
9780807580356 (lib. bdg.)
080758035X (lib. bdg.)
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