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Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity
Author
Cat M. Ariail
Content
x + 230 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Publication notes
Revised dissertation, University of Miami
Description
Focuses on 1946 to 1963 and covers athletes including Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph.
Main subject
Sports, Hobbies, Recreation, and Travel
ISBN
9780252043482 (cloth); 9780252085383 (pap.); 9780252052361 (ebook)
Citation
Ariail, Cat M.
Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed June 29, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2233.
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04-05-2024
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Sept. 1, 2020
Journal of American History
109.1 (2022): 181–82
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