Tennessee, 1960. One extraordinary team of women–and the first all-Black women’s track team–found glory at the Olympic games in Rome. Here in America, their success was “an impossible dream come true.”
Now, author Aime Alley Card tells us her personal connection to the team, how she did her astonishing amount of research, and how she found agent Leticia Gomez to represent the work, now available from Lyons Press: bookshop.org/p/books/the-tigerb…?ean=9781493073887
Learn more about Aime here: www.aimecard.com
Learn more about Leticia here: manuscriptacademy.com/faculty-member…/leticia-gomez
Episode transcript here: manuscriptacademy.com/podcast-letici…ime-alley-card
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