Rapid Ray

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Rapid Ray

The Story Ray Lewis

Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Author: John Cooper

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Language: English

Published by: Tundra Books

Published on: 5th June 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781770490666


Rapid Ray Lewis

Rapid Ray Lewis was arguably the fastest man of his generation. He won medals in the 1932 Olympics and the 1934 British Empire Games, and countless races in North America. Remarkable achievements for any man – but all the more remarkable because Lewis had to race poverty and prejudice. The great-grandson of slaves, he worked as a porter on the railway, and trained by running alongside the tracks when the train was stopped on the prairies.

Rapid Ray is far more than a sports autobiography; it is as much a history of one man’s battle for equality as it is a history of Olympic-level track. Throughout his long life – he is now in his nineties — Ray Lewis has fought discrimination not only in sports, but in every walk of life.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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