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Temple's Tigerbelles is a unique rags to riches story unlike any other. They started with only a station wagon and $300, but this group of female track athletes, known as the Tigerbelles, went on to bring home 23 Olympic Medals (including 13 Gold). Featuring 26 color illustrations by award-winning artist James R. Threalkill.

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Temple's Tigerbelles is a unique rags to riches story unlike any other. They started with only a station wagon and $300, but this group of female track athletes, known as the Tigerbelles, went on to bring home 23 Olympic Medals (including 13 Gold). Featuring 26 color illustrations by award-winning artist James R. Threalkill.
Autorenporträt
Dwight Lewis, a graduate of Tennessee State University, is a retired award-winning reporter, columnist and editorial page editor for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville. In 1981, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In November 2017, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is the co-author of A Will To Win, which chronicles the amazing athletic history of TSU. He also contributed to the book, Thinking Black: Some of the Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind.