A timely memoir about world record-breaking Tyus's 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.

Finalist for the Track and Field Writers of America’s 2018 Armory Foundation Book Award "Tyus proves as winning a storyteller as she was a runner...The 'a' in

When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participat

This exceedingly timely book looks at the history of black activist athletes and the important role of the black community in making sure fair play existed, not

“A powerful and poignant memoir” of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times�