(Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph / Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith

Object Details

Contents: Wilma's home town win? Race on parade in Clarksville -- "She isn't Colored, she is gold": the politics of race and beauty -- Running with the story: From Cold War icon to Civil Rights rebel -- Examining the autobiographical self: Wilma Rudolph on bookshelves -- Wilma: biopics, nostalgia, and family in the 1970s -- Against all odds: reading Rudolph over four decades of children's literature -- On the margins of memory: the politics of remembering and forgetting Wilma Rudolph through material culture -- Conclusion: to tell the truth

2015

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic: Runners (Sports); Women runners; Sports--History; Memory; Collective memory