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Running for Jesus / Madeline Manning Jackson as told to Jerry B. Jenkins.
- Text
- Waco, Tex. : Word Books, c1977.
- 1977
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 78-3142 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 87-770 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Faster, higher, further : women's triumphs and disasters at the Olympics / Adrianne Blue.
- Text
- London : Virago, 1988.
- 1988
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 89-1543 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 89-82 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Florence Griffith Joyner : dazzling Olympian / Nathan Aaseng.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 90-123 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Althea Gibson / Tom Biracree.
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 90-45 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Holkina Peterson portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1946.>
- 1946
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Peterson, Holkina Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Althea Gibson portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1941?-1984?>
- 1941-1984
- 2 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8903b2c0-c5f1-012f-080d-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=107:d333ccb0-7784-0130-7057-58d385a7b928Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Gibson, Althea folder 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Gibson, Althea folder 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wilma Rudolph portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1960?-1979?>
- 1960-1979
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8903b2c0-c5f1-012f-080d-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=223:54d360a0-c5f2-012f-c0db-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Rudolph, Wilma Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black American women in Olympic track and field : a complete illustrated reference / by Michael D. Davis.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 93-4366 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *796.42-D (Davis, M. Black American women in Olympic track and field) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jackie Joyner Kersee, superwoman / Margaret J. Goldstein and Jennifer Larson.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 94-752 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wilma Rudolph / by Wayne Coffey.
- Text
- Woodbridge, Conn. : Blackbirch Press, 1993
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 94-428 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Zina Garrison, ace / A.P. Porter.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-447 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Florence Griffith Joyner : track and field star / April Koral.
- Text
- New York, NY : F. Watts, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-982 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wilma Rudolph / Victoria Sherrow.
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-1078 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee : champion athlete / Geri Harrington.
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 95-576 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Olympic Black women / Martha Ward Plowden ; illustrated by Ronald Jones.
- Text
- Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 96-12 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Changing the game : the stories of tennis champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson / Sue Davidson.
- Text
- Seattle, Wash. : Seal Press, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1638 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Venus to the hoop : a gold-medal year in women's basketball / Sara Corbett.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1977.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 97-444 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
An ethnography of the sport experiences of African American female athletes / by Terese M. Stratta.
- Text
- 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 99-2528 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Althea Gibson collection [graphic].
- Still image
- 1950-[196-?]
- 1950-196
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/5480fe40-650d-013a-b8f7-0242ac110004Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Althea Gibson Collection Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
See how she runs : Marion Jones & the making of a champion / by Ron Rapoport.
- Text
- Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000.
- 2000
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 00-18219 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 00-1995 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 03-2826 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Ruthie Bolton-Holifield : sharpshooting playmaker / Terri Morgan.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-586 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee / by Neil Cohen.
- Text
- Boston, MA : Little, Brown, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 03-175 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sports [graphic].
- Still image
- [1920?]-2000.
- 1920-2000
- 8 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/846ba530-c6bf-012f-203e-3c075448cc4bItem details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Sports box 6 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Sports box 7 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Sports box 8 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Going for the gold : the story of Black women in sports / by Ken Bentley.
- Text
- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Carnation Co., c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 04-3364 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Phenomenal women : a qualitative study of silencing, stereotypes, socialization, and strategies for change in the sport participation of African American female student-athletes / by Jennifer E. Bruening.
- Text
- 2000.
- 2005-2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 05-1626 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wilma Rudolph : the greatest woman sprinter in history / Anne Schraff.
- Text
- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip046/2003014971.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 06-1005 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lynette Woodard : the first female Globetrotter / by Bert Rosenthal.
- Text
- Chicago : Childrens Press, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 07-512 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Tomboy [videorecording] / a film by Donna Carter ; produced in the Department of Communication, Standford University.
- Moving image
- [San Francisco. Calif.] : Distributed by Frameline, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image VTH 5253 T Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Anna Jackson Smith papers, 1929-1998.
- Mixed material
- 1929-1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 301 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A spectacular leap : black women athletes in twentieth-century America / Jennifer H. Lansbury.
- Text
- Fayetteville [Arkansas] : University of Arkansas Press, 2014.
- 2014
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 14-1104 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR GV697.A1 L274 2014 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
(Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph / Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith.
- Text
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
- 2015
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 15-1318 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Griffith Joyner, Florence Delorez (Track athlete) : clippings.
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Sc VF: Part 3 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Desk Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Courage to soar : a body in motion, a life in balance / Simone Biles ; with Michelle Burford ; [foreword by Mary Lou Retton].
- Text
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2016]
- 2016-2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 18-338 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Tigerbelle : the Wyomia Tyus story / Wyomia Tyus and Elizabeth Terzakis ; with a foreword by Joy Reid.
- Text
- Brooklyn, New York : Edge of Sports, an imprint of Akashic Books, [2018]
- 2018-2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 18-378 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Simone Biles : making the case for the greatest of all time / by Susan Blackaby.
- Text
- New York : Sterling Children's Books, 2019.
- 2019
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 19-98 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Mamie on the mound : a woman in baseball's Negro leagues / by Leah Henderson ; illustrated by George Doutsiopoulos.
- Text
- North Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint, [2020]
- 2020-2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 21-6 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper / Ann Malaspina ; illustrations by Eric Velasquez.
- Text
- Chicago : Albert Whitman, c2012.
- 2012
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 13-1135 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 18-162 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Queen of the track : Alice Coachman, Olympic high-jump champion / Heather Lang ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
- Text
- Honesdale, PA : Boyds Mills Press, 2012.
- 2012
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 14-525 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Serena Williams / by Jon M. Fishman.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, [2017]
- 2017
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 17-992 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Simone Biles / Dan Wetzel ; illustrations by Marcelo Baez.
- Text
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
- 2020-2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 21-278 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
She persisted : Florence Griffith Joyner / written by Rita Williams-Garcia ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint,.
- Text
- New York : Philomel Books, [2021]
- 2021-2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 22-66 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Trailblazers : Black women who helped make America great : American firsts/American icons. Volume 1, Activism, dance, sports / Gabrielle David ; edited by Carolina Fung Feng ; introduction by Chandra D.L. Waring, PhD ; foreword by Lyah Beth LeFlore.
- Text
- New York, New York : 2Leaf Press, 2021.
- 2021-2021
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MGY 22-865 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 22-852 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Simone Biles : I know this to be true : on family, confidence & persistence / interview and photography, Geoff Blackwell.
- Text
- San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books LLC in association with Blackwell & Ruth, 2020.
- 2020-2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 22-46 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
My greatest save : the brave, barrier-breaking journey of a world-champion goalkeeper / Briana Scurry, with Wayne Coffey ; [foreword by Robin Roberts].
- Text
- New York : Abrams Press, [2022]
- 2022-2022
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 23-142 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Toni Stone : an original play / by Lydia R. Diamond.
- Text
- London, England : Samuel French, [2021]
- 2021-2021
Brave, black, first / Cheryl Willis Hudson ; illustrations by Erin K. Robinson.
- Text
- New York : Yearling, 2023.
- 2023
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 23-502 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black icons in herstory / illustrated by Monica Ahanonu ; written by Darian Symoné Harvin.
- Text
- Los Angeles, California : Chronicle Chroma, [2022]
- 2022-2022
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 23-577 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wslam.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Harris Publications
- 2021-present
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Ser.-M .S570 no.1-3 (Sept. 2021-Sept. 2024) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Not available - In use until 2024-06-17 - Please for assistance.The Tigerbelles : Olympic legends from Tennessee State / Aime Alley Card.
- Text
- Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2024]
- 2024
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