Full Description
In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions. In sports as diverse as football and fencing, wrestling and track and field, these men and women triumphed over the odds to become better than the best. Their legacy is in their accomplishments and in their determination to continue contributing to the societal transformation their efforts helped make possible.
A V Ethel Willis White Book
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sam Lacy Sports Journalism
2. Mal Whitfield Track and Field
3. Mae Faggs Starr Track and Field
4. Don Benning, Ed.D. Wrestling
5. Lenny Wilkens Basketball
6. Ken Hudson NBA Referee
7. Arthur Ashe Jr. Tennis
8. Wyomia Tyus Track and Field
9. Alan Page, J.D. Football
10. Jennifer Johnson Paralympic Table Tennis
11. Nikki Franke, ED.D. Fencing
12. Peter Westbrook Fencing
13. Maurice Smith Martial Arts
Black Athletes Interviewed for the Blacks in Sports Oral History Project
Selected Bibliography
Index