Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Any Child
Content: Economic Struggle
Settings: Northern America, Tennessee, United States of America
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Character Prominence: Joint Main, Secondary