A spectacular leap: black women athletes in twentieth-century America

Queen of the courts: Ora Washington and the emergence of America's first black female sport celebrity

"The Tuskegee flash": Alice Coachman and the challenges of 1940s U.S. women's track and field

"A nationwide community project": Althea Gibson, class, and the racial politics of 1950s black tennis

"Foxes, not oxes": Wilma Rudolph and the de-marginalization of American women's track and field

"The Swiftie from Tennessee State": Wyomia Tyus and the racial reality of black women track athletes in the 1960s and 1970s

"A Jackie of all trades": Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the challenges of being the world's greatest female athlete

Performance-enhanced athletes and "ghetto Cinderellas": black women athletes enter the twenty-first century.