Untold until now, here is the Story of Black sprinter and long-jumper Willye B.
Through Alice Faye Duncan\'s signature combination of poetry and prose and Keith Mallett\'s lifelike illustrations, readers will be inspired by Willye White\'s persistence and will learn how she contributed to Black progress with muscle and grit..
Her struggles weren\'t over though--time and again, Willye had to remind herself, I believe in me, whether she was running and jumping or witnessing the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement.
And run Willye did, first for the Tennessee State Tigerbelles and then for the US Olympic team.
So when her cousin noticed she was the fastest runner around, Willye jumped at the chance to put on her Traveling shoes and run her way to better opportunities.
Willye had big dreams, though.
Abandoned by both her parents, she worked alongside her grandparents in the cotton fields.
White was born in 1939 in Money, Mississippi--but money was exactly what she didn\'t have.
Future Olympian Willye B.
White, who went from picking cotton as a child in Mississippi to competing and winning in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics.
Untold until now, here is the Story of Black sprinter and long-jumper Willye B
