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100 1  Kranish, Michael,|eauthor. 
245 14 The world's fastest man :|bthe extraordinary life of 
       cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero /
       |cMichael Kranish. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
263    1905 
264  1 New York :|bScribner,|c2019. 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    x, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, portraits :|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliography (pages 343-349) and index. 
520    "In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, 
       a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten 
       figure--the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who 
       broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and 
       most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era. 
       In the 1890s, the nation's promise of equality had failed 
       spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War,
       the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and 
       the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper 
       class. Amidst this world arrived Major Taylor, a young 
       black man who wanted to compete in the nation's most 
       popular and mostly white man's sport, cycling. Birdie 
       Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world's fastest 
       man, declared that he could help turn the young black 
       athlete into a champion. Twelve years before boxer Jack 
       Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie 
       Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turn--
       especially by whites who feared he would disprove their 
       stereotypes of blacks. In The World's Fastest Man, years 
       in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish 
       reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare
       interview with his daughter and other never-before-
       uncovered details from Taylor's life. Kranish shows how 
       Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world,
       was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled
       black men of his day. From a moment in time just before 
       the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the
       populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous 
       societal changes were about to take place, The World's 
       Fastest Man shines a light on a dramatic moment in 
       American history--the gateway to the twentieth century"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
520    "In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, 
       a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten 
       figure--the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who 
       broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and 
       most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Taylor, Major,|d1878-1932. 
650  0 Cyclists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 African American cyclists|vBiography. 
650  0 ocls african american bio 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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