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Wilma Rudolph Subheading Stereotypes

Around the time Wilma was doing sports track and field athletes were considered "tomboy". They believed women do not belong participating in sports. Wilma's coach worked very hard and her athletes to diminish the tomboy image. Before there were only male invitational track meets but one Wilma's team came around they broke that.

Works Cited Lansbury, Jennifer H. “A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America” University of Arkansas Press, 2014. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/29032