Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

SKU: 4080522842_2

Brand: Albert Whitman & Company

Product Description

Bare feet shouldn't fly. Long legs shouldn't spin. Braids shouldn't flap in the wind. 'Sit on the porch and be a lady,' Papa scolded Alice." In Alice's Georgia hometown, there was no track where an African-American girl could practice, so she made her...