Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby by Crystal Hubbard

Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby

Crystal Hubbard with Robert McGuire (Illustrator)

40 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens historical emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
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The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing's all-time great jockeys and the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1902. Born into an African American sharecropping family in 1880s Kentucky, Jimmy Winkfield grew up loving horse...

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