When Alice Coachman was a young woman, most white people wouldn't shake her hand.  Yet when the King of England placed an Olympic medal around her neck, he extended his hand to Alice in congratulations.  Standing on a podium in London's Wembley Stadium, Alice was a long way from the fields of Georgia, where she ran barefoot as a child.  With a record-breaking leap, she had become the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal.  Here is the inspiring story of an athlete who never took her eyes off the prize.

From the dust jacket