Marshall W. ``Major`` Taylor: The Fastest Bicycle Rider In the World: The Story of a Colored Boy`s Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds

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Marshall W. ``Major`` Taylor : The Fastest Bicycle Rider In the World: The Story of a Colored Boy`s Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds

Wormley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, 1928

Original cloth boards with tooled gilt lettering., Lacks dust jacket, otherwise in very good condition. , Illustrated with a profusion of black & white photos.

Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor (26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km)track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George Dixon

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