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Race across America - Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies (Hardcover)
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Race across America - Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies (Hardcover)
Series: Sports and Entertainment
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On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race
across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth
day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from
Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the
Mississippi River. Along with the signature outfit that earned him
his nickname-a white towel tied around his head, white shorts, and
a white shirt-Gardner wore an American flag, a reminder to all who
saw him run through the Jim Crow South that he was an American and
the leader of the greatest footrace in the world. Kastner traces
Gardner's remarkable journey from his birth in 1897 in Birmingham,
Alabama, to his success in Seattle, Washington, as one of the top
long-distance runners in the region, and finally to his
participation in two transcontinental footraces where he risked his
life, facing a barrage of harassment for having the audacity to
compete with white runners. Kastner shows how Gardner's
participation became a way to protest the endemic racism he faced,
heralding the future of nonviolent efforts that would be
instrumental to the civil rights movement. Shining a bright light
on his extraordinary athletic accomplishments and his heroism on
the dusty roads of America in the 1920s, Kastner gives Gardner and
other black bunioneers the attention they so richly deserve.
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