Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper / by Ann Malaspina ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
2012
GV1073.15.C63 M35 2012 (Mapit)
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Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper / by Ann Malaspina ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
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ISBN
9780807580356
080758035X
080758035X
Publication Details
Chicago, Ill. : Albert Whitman, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Call Number
GV1073.15.C63 M35 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.42092 B
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. Includes bibliographical references.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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