March 25, 2024

Success Stories: Aime Alley Card, Agent Leticia Gomez And One Olympic Team That Changed Everything

Success Stories: Aime Alley Card, Agent Leticia Gomez And One Olympic Team That Changed Everything

Tennessee, 1960. One extraordinary team of women-…

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Tennessee, 1960. One extraordinary team of women--and the first all-Black women’s track team--found glory at the Olympic games in Rome. Here in America, their success was "an impossible dream come true."Now, author Aime Alley Card tells us her personal connection to the team, how she did her astonishing amount of research, and how she found agent Leticia Gomez to represent the work, now available from Lyons Press: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-tigerbelles-the-american-team-that-changed-the-face-of-women-s-sports-aime-alley-card/18574403?ean=9781493073887Learn more about Aime here: https://www.aimecard.comLearn more about Leticia here: https://manuscriptacademy.com/faculty-members/leticia-gomezEpisode transcript here: http://manuscriptacademy.com/podcast-leticia-gomez-aime-alley-card