The Bunion Derby was an eighty-four day, 3,400-mile race, all on foot from Los Angeles to New York City. The 199 participants included five African American, a Jamaican-born Canadian, and perhaps as many as fifteen Latinos, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders, representing about ten percent of the competitors, the rest were white. The men traveled […]
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