Books with title Outstanding African American Athletes

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Offers alphabetically arranged profiles of more than one hundred fifty African-American athletes since the late nineteenth century.

Short, entertaining biographies of American women, including Louisa May Alcott, Ethel Barrymore, Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dolley Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Julia Ward Howe. Harriet Tubman, Lillian Russell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and other ouststanding American women.

For more than a century, great African American athletes have contributed to the role of sports in American life. People of all ages have cheered for the players who represent their communities. The Outstanding African American series examines the experiences, events, and accomplishments of African Americans.