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Races : the trials and triumphs of Canada's fastest family

Summary: Harry and Valerie Jerome both competed on the track for Canada, with Harry setting world records and winning an Olympic medal in 1964. Fifty-two years earlier, their grandfather was Canada's first Black Olympian. In Races, Valerie Jerome sets the record straight on her family's history and the racism they fought.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1773103512
  • ISBN: 9781773103518
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 17 min., 26 sec.))
    remote
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Goose Lane Editions, 2023.

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Participant or Performer Note: Read by Nneka Elliot.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed November 15, 2023).
Subject: Jerome, Valerie (Valerie E.) -- Family
Howard, John (John Armstrong) -- 1888-1937
Jerome, Harry (Henry Winston) -- 1940-1982
Jerome family
Nonfiction
African American Nonfiction
Biography & Autobiography
Sports & Recreations
Athletes, Black -- Canada -- Biography
Racism in sports -- Canada
Canada -- Race relations
Sportifs noirs -- Canada -- Biographies
Racisme dans les sports -- Canada
Genre: Electronic books.
Audiobooks.
Livres audio.

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