Today we meet a folklorist who helped preserve the past for the WPA and a woman who was told she would never walk again but would go on to be the fastest woman in the world.
TARTT
http://www.awhf.org/tartt.html
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1132
http://cdm17066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p17066coll3
https://www.uwa.edu/library/archives/alabamaroom/findingaids/rubypickenstartt
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/01/alabama-folklorist-ruby-pickens-tartt/
https://youtu.be/r9SENzRLk_M
WILMA
https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-athletes-protest-and-politics-an-interview-with-amira-rose-davis/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/obituaries/wilma-rudolph-star-of-the-1960-olympics-dies-at-54.html
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-rudolph
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