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Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion
Carole Boston Weatherford (2009) , 32 pages
Wendell O. Scott was NASCAR's first African-American racecar driver. He didn't always get his deserved rewards. It was the segregation era and things were pretty tough for African-Americans, even talented ones. Many of the racetracks tried to bar him from racings, and when that didn't work, the other drivers did everything to bang up his car so that he could not win. That didn't stop Wendell. He completed more than five hundred races in NASCAR's top division and finished in the top ten 147 times. In 1977 a film depicting his life was released Greased Lightning. Read about this extraordinary man and his passion for car racing.
Reviewed by Emilia