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Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman

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This award-winning true story of Black Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio and eventually went on to win three gold medals, is illustrated by Caldecott medal–winning artist David Diaz.
Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run—all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single Olympiad. This dramatic and inspiring true story is illustrated in bold watercolor and acrylic paintings.

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Call Number

927 KRU

Publisher

New York, USA : Scholastic Inc., 1996

Collation

48 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780439880015

Classification

927

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text

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Subject(s)

African American women
United States
Rudolph, Wilma, 1940-1994
Women runners
Runners (Sports)
Poliomyelitis--Patients
Women track and field athletes
Track and field athletes

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