The World's Fastest Man, by Michael Kranish
A biography of America’s first Black sports hero
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Mythologies: Major Taylor, Henri Desgrange and a Wheelbarrow Full of Centimes
Legend has it that Henri Desgrange, creator of the Tour de France, once paid cycling’s first Black world champion with 10-centime coins, so many that Major Taylor needed a wheelbarrow to cart the coins away. Is there any truth in this myth?
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