A Spectacular Leap
Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Jennifer H. Lansbury
300 pages, 6 x 9
Published 2014
New in Paper January 2020
Available In:
Paper: $26.95 (978-1-68226-211-5)
Cloth: $39.95 (978-1-55728-658-1)
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