The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby: The Story of Jimmy Winkfield by Crystal Hubbard

The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby: The Story of Jimmy Winkfield

Crystal Hubbard with Robert McGuire (Illustrator)

38 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens historical emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
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Born into an African American sharecropping family in 1880s Kentucky, Jimmy Winkfield grew up loving horses. The large, powerful animals inspired little Jimmy to think big. Looking beyond his family's farm, he longed for a life riding on action-pa...

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